Build a tower, build a team | Tom Wujec

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www.ted.com 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. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?
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@BallerEdits746 4 года назад

i'm surprised that the kindergartners didn't eat up the marshmallows while building the tower

@peggystreetinfluencer 3 года назад

I thought about the same thing! lol!

@bellejsan 5 лет назад

I also experienced the Marshmallow Challenge during a university workshop. Other departments did well in the challenge EXCEPT our department: College of Business department. This video was played after the workshop for processing and I really learned so much from it. Thanks!

@faithbryant1730 7 месяцев назад

I did this activity with my college class. They loved it. Many were relieved to watch the video and see that they weren't alone in failing.

@gaviningham 8 лет назад

"Among the best are recent graduates of... kindergarten!" Love this video & the way this simple exercise is used.

@philabyebye 5 лет назад

Just started doing this with my K-5 computer science classes. We have had a consistent "fail" rate of about 50% of the groups per class do not have a standing tower. For me, it'll be useful to do at the end of the year again too, and see if all the teamwork, collaboration, communication, and prototyping activities during the year, build more skills, and produce better tower results.

@sawkevinnoel7954 Год назад

Did you end up doing the challenge at the end of the year? If so, what were the results?

@AlonSandler 14 лет назад

as a TEDtalks addict, i have seen over 95% of all talks uploaded to youtube - and this is the only talk so far i had a smile across my face for the whole talk. im sad i know too much now about this test to actually do it and see how good i get, but as an engineering undergraduate student i think ill do pretty good. Loved it, 5 stars if i could, "like" is underastimating this talk

@greatgoblinonizuka12 5 лет назад

I lived this experience myself last Thursday and it's totally true, my team failed because no discussion was there and ideas like mine or others could actually been discussed and enhanced . The other team actually did that and made a tower of 48 centimeters. By the way we are systems engineers

@LacourWave 4 года назад

Engineer Lmao i am in a class of people that most of them want to be engineer Result were predictable The half of the class that was from educational class from their beginning had the poorest results (still around 25 cm) they want to pretend engineer graduation Me and other mate's that came from industrial classes and poor theorical knowneldge made the bests tower around 40cm The best idea was still to tape the mashmallow to the roof

@demonicguardgaming8067 Год назад

I'm doing this tomorrow for my year 9 STEM class and I would love to know what some of the winning designs were

@venice4free 3 года назад

We just did this as well. My team won, but only because I told everyone to stop once we got a high enough tower. I looked around the room and realized that everyone else was starting to get overly confident and kept adding more stuff. I was banking on theirs all collapsing, which they did.

@elenaleksanyan1365 Год назад

I participated to this challenge and I can state that it is indeed a very good teambuilding activity. It shows how every person in the team thinks individually and also how effective they can operate as a team. However, the most shocking fact is that kindergarten children get better results than the adults. It really makes me think how sometimes the urge to show a leadership skills in the team among the adults can disturb the work that much and create a chaos. Also very interesting factor, that a prize, which at the first sight should be motivating, turns out to be more of a stress factor and disturbs the work even more.

@goobytron2888 Год назад

My guess as an educator is that kindergarten students tend to focus on and in the moment. Their ability for abstract thought is just emerging so they are less worried about, “what if I fail” and more on the immediate task. Taken to the other extreme. Think about older kids and adults that are so afraid of failure that they won’t even make an attempt. Also their may be a fun factor. Adults may see the task as silly or unimportant, embarrassing or beneath them.

@annabellezhen873 6 лет назад

My partner and I did this during science lessons, and it was very easy. We made a pyramid and it was 40 cm tall with only 18 sticks of spaghetti. We were the only ones to use a square base instead of a triangular base.

@leducleadership 7 лет назад

I love this exercise. We did it in one of my MBA classes and I use it in workshops that i do now.

@ProgressiveResources 12 лет назад

Simple team building ideas can work but the facilitation has to be really good and meaningful. Tom's a good speaker, enjoyed this.

@amitbhojwani2675 11 лет назад

it is amazing to see that creativity has no age.........

@user-ff1fm4ye2g 3 месяца назад

I found this very helpful in a CAPSTONE project I am working on. Thank you and I will be sharing this with my team!

@briansmobile1 14 лет назад

Design is a contact sport. Prototypes are an essential part of design.

@ali25120 2 года назад

Thanks a lot Sir for sharing important lesson, "design truly is a contact sport it demands that we bring all of our senses to the task and that we apply the very best our thinking our feeling and our doing to the challenge we have at hand, prototypes are an essential part of the design. Excellent speech 👌👏👏👏👏

@denezircarrijo3052 Год назад

Excelente. A prática no curso de liderança foi bastante enriquecedora.

@yahalife 3 года назад

Even in current reality this ted talk makes sense. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

@peggystreetinfluencer 3 года назад

Your presentation was very well structured! It had it all: good information, humor, anecdotes! Wow!

@CutieRingoJoy 5 лет назад

Was trying to find video that explains the best about the challenge and this one was the best, just sent them this video

@HiAdrian 14 лет назад

Well i'm certainly glad to see architects&engineers at the top :)

@ali25120 2 года назад

Thanks a lot Sir for sharing important lesson, "design truly is a contact sport it demands that we bring all of our senses to the task and that we apply the very best our thinking our feeling and our doing to the challenge we have at hand prototypes are an essential part of design. Excellent speech 👌👏👏👏👏

@robertodagaasjr7515 2 года назад

Thanks, wonderful inputs.

@sooome9294 6 лет назад

We did this in business class and my group did it in 16 min standing tall on its own. Took picture to prove it.

@AbreTuMente 4 года назад

Thanks for sharing this amazing information!

@dawnhooper9870 6 лет назад

Very good message.

@NGUYENTHUHONG123 6 лет назад

Im doing it in my class, really fun!

@oxlie_5093 4 года назад

no matter how sturdy the tower or how much imagination goes into a tower it will never be able to deflect the emerald splash

@satintegro 12 лет назад

It's a wery good exercise, we use it allot in our team building programs.

@ykedoodl 7 лет назад

I asked the class to do this individually first. Many failed and we had some towers from 10-17" in height. Then I broke them into smaller groups of three and asked them to collaborate about the challenge. The groups built higher towers using the combined wisdom. They also team-built the second generation. It was interesting to note that the collaboration did not cure the fail rate which was about the same as when individuals did it. Collaboration did not achieve a reasonable limit. Teams attempted to build too high and collapses were frequent. Building towers out of spaghetti, tape and string is obviously difficult.

@sherrelllouis5546 6 лет назад

Did you give them the same time frame for both individual and team collaborative work? 10 minutes?

@CrackeDHesi 11 лет назад

We did this today at Massey university and it was about 75cm high, very fun!

@reapfreak 14 лет назад

I love how he mentioned falure is so important. That's why I hate when people within the government try to keep failures afloat at the expense of us all.

@katemc2999 10 лет назад

Love this! I'll be trying this with my kindergarten class next year :D

@konstantinos7024 4 года назад

How it went?? 😂

@howdysecret7036 3 года назад

Yeh

@doedicurus 14 лет назад

his face lights up when he talks about the 39 inch structure, if you catch my drift.

@user-ct8vl9ss8i 5 лет назад

I can't hear the video clips ㅠㅠㅠ

@liquidminds 14 лет назад

we did that once with sheets of paper, some tape and a pair of scissors... was fun.

@harmambergen3722 7 лет назад

I could send this video to every overwatch player I know

@quandmeme9970 4 года назад

Games are opposite of the delayed gratification and fpss destroy brain's hipoccampus and neo cortex. lol

@Snow-fb7oy 4 года назад

@@quandmeme9970 have you ever played a game?

@pancho3495 3 года назад

And they still wouldn’t play objective.

@YoungShizzie Год назад

team work makes the dream work !

@nikolaosvitoroulis7630 5 лет назад

Love that 480p

@jessicagentry2200 2 года назад

This is very educational.

@nosafespace 14 лет назад

one of the best talks so far!

@workaholic888 14 лет назад

oh wow...i did this!! really fun!!

@user-iv3rp5bl2m 8 месяцев назад

what is a good description of the video as a whole

@terrywickenden77 3 года назад

Has Tom or somebody been able to adapt some form of this or another suitable challenge for online classes

@merutiwari-admiralyt8539 3 года назад

What are the important elements for building an effective team?

@valerievankerckhove9325 4 года назад

Morale of the story: hire kindergartners.

@molotera8789 4 года назад

“It took me 4 years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child” - Pablo Picasso

@rigdigwus 3 года назад

actually it is hire engineers and architects

@jdglancy 3 года назад

Would love to see mechanical/civil engineers vs electrical engineers.

@chihori8053 4 года назад

His script has been published in high school textbooks across Japan.

@SandraBug2 12 лет назад

i had to do this in class and my group's tower was 2 inches!!! :D

@ExcelTutorials1 3 года назад

THIS IS FACINATING!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!

@manuelguerra3382 6 лет назад

My whole class did this as a challenge and everyone’s right to only use for sticks to hold it up in the rest just build up the marshmallow and it all fell and me and my team we did we made like an Eiffel tower design and we were the only team who had their structure standing

@treizealexzander3652 12 лет назад

try it 2 weeks ago at JCLC...our tower was only 7 cm...

@gaviningham 8 лет назад

4:49 shows what happens when people strive too much for results - many will recognise this in their businesses.

@CutieRingoJoy 5 лет назад

Gavin Ingham unless your experience with building things

@Aaberg123 14 лет назад

Did this back when I went to high school.

@Xangura Год назад

Does anybody know a similar team build challenge to this?

@WeatherManToBe 14 лет назад

@mayhem8808 Yeah you're right, he lets the lisp slip a few times and he has perfectly fitted clothing.

@hinanisar859 Год назад

Planning and organzing are enough for team?

@SteveHaldi 11 лет назад

I have a daughter currently in kindergarten. We could all learn a thing or two from them...

@MitchellTF 2 года назад

I didn't realize that this actually was ten years old!

@anindyadey2292 5 лет назад

The content seems so similar to a book - How to create successful teams

@shamshamza9577 5 лет назад

very good videos thank you very much for this job !!!!!!!

@shamshamza9577 5 лет назад

thank you bro

@shamshamza9577 5 лет назад

your welcom

@Doerenee 11 лет назад

me too as I am studying that ! :D

@damtorres4593 5 лет назад

Very gooooood🖤

@akashanddavidfirebeatsprod8749 3 года назад

thanks

@NahyanChowdhury 14 лет назад

fantastic

@cuarzotv9123 3 года назад

Very interesting

@SubhamoyChakraborti 10 лет назад

*Have you taken the Marshmallow challenge?* Lot of learning, specially about the importance of prototyping and identifying the marshmallow of your project. The bragging part: We had taken this challenge during our ***** program on Innovation (Driving Growth through Innovation), and made the structure successfully stand. Though we didn't make the tallest structure, we got a gift for doing the right things during the process.

@NathansWargames 13 лет назад

im doin this at collage tommoro lol

@hogepief 5 лет назад

The audio is gone.

@juliamaidman7299 7 лет назад

I am learning how to do a marshmallow challenge.

@relief0123 6 лет назад

재밌네요~

@FrancisRodrigues 5 лет назад

A Marshmallow challenge explanation start by 5:25

@xridethelightningx 13 лет назад

yeaaaahhhh go engineers!

@shanershaner1 13 лет назад

my group got 34.5 inches in class today OWNAGE!

@waltersso 10 лет назад

did he do it in 18 minutes?

@Talazorn 11 лет назад

And go architects too!

@iznmhc 6 лет назад

3:43

@luvinafirst3651 7 месяцев назад

We did this experiment in our communication class

@panchalkamal 5 лет назад

Awesome

@waltersso 10 лет назад

which business school did you graduate from?

@Elementkcdc 13 лет назад

21.5 inches on my first try. Coulda went higher but we didn't use all of the spaghetti sticks

@user-tu1jq5of2n 2 года назад

1:05～4:34 6:15～6:43

@kathleenoh2215 6 лет назад

Providing incentives to a team may not always produce success, depending on their skills/competency..

@JamesNajjar43 14 лет назад

i did this in my class

@MrAnimationize2 10 лет назад

wow, if thats actually true, although highly doubtful, thats impressive

@kitkat-su3fr 5 лет назад

i did this in class today, and damn it was hard

@therealspookspeak 4 года назад

We use straws instead of spaghettis

@yukominakochan 11 лет назад

I'm studing architecture, and my design teacher make us do this, my record is 63 cm.

@user-nn3rj1zr8z 4 года назад

My record is 97

@GAM3VIDZROCKS33 6 лет назад

build a tower, build a team, build a wall

@user-cm5kv8jt9t 3 года назад

3:05

@chrismattila 13 лет назад

a team in my class today got 53 (grade 8)

@user-kf8uz2sz2g 4 года назад

1:47 1:59 2:02 2:14 2:17 2:25 2:35 3:06 3:16 3:57 3:59 4:33

@user-cm5kv8jt9t 3 года назад

5:58

@angelmoralesb 3 года назад

Prototyping - Coursera 2020 Here :)

@yorimichian 9 лет назад

good

@samsonoke3051 8 лет назад

Brilliant!!!

@euph0rya672 4 года назад

Samson Oke boomer

@caidencorso3294 Год назад

I did this with my students. It was alright, but someone misunderstood the instructions and lit their marshmallow on fire ☹

@alexanderleeart 10 лет назад

I don't see how "collaboration" has anything to do with the one plan vs. iterative approaches. I think the study would have been a lot more straightforward if the task was done by individuals, and then maybe later that could also be compared with the performance of groups. definitely seems like a useful study though.

@MsSofia881 9 лет назад

we watched the video after the exercise and could totally relate. give the task to a team and watch them.

@justinsofo9280 5 лет назад

Alexander Lee obviously has no idea and a low iq. See Robert Kientop's comments below. Planning and iterative approaches has everything to do with working as a team and collaboration.