Over the years, I’ve taught perhaps thousands of MBA students in many countries. From time to time, one of them pops up – and I am challenged to recognize their faces and remember where and when we crossed paths. Usually, I fail.

At these moments, I wish I were… a honeybee.

Space Daily reports that honeybees “can recognize human faces – they can be trained to distinguish between individual humans by face and continue to recognize them across different viewpoints despite having a brain smaller than the head of a pin!”

Run that “brain the size of a pin” by me once again? My brain, like all brains, has 86 billion neurons. A bee brain has one million neurons. My brain has 86,000 times more neurons than a........

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