Video – The Marshmallow Challenge
Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients – dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow? And why does a surprising group always beat the average? (hint: it is not recent business school graduates)
In this TED Talk, Tom Wujec from Autodesk presents some surprisingly deep research into the “marshmallow problem” — a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. His insights ranges from how to build effective teams as well as the role of incentives and how they relate to performance.
Be Free!
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very creative idea that helps people socializing with each other in a small group and working on any kind of poject to score big successes and achieve their goal consequently. Actually I took part in these trainings, it`s very amusing abd very effective
Comment by Vancouver family lawyer — May 30, 2010 @ 1:16 am