You must give them enough room at the right time to store the crop. At the time, I even thought he was holding out on me, not letting me in on his 'secrets' of management. Only with more experience have I now come back to his words and realised how true they are. The complexities of beekeeping come with HOW to do the WHAT of those three questions. The methods and timing that you will use to get a queen in the hive, feed the colony if need be and super it up will determine how successful your beekeeping can be.
Sugar syrup mixing and feeding and supering up are really topics of their own.
There are plenty of options available to you in either operation. Re-queening is another major topic that should be covered more fully than in this article. Of course, with the goal of messing up such a tidy presentation, I would add another few operations to Arthur's three. Knowing how to properly inspect a hive for brood disease should be listed. Another concept I feel strongly about is that of using methods and materials related to the scale of your beekeeping.