Build a Tower, Build a Team

A TED Talk. As a manager, your job is to build the best possible team and get the most out of them. In this talk, Tom Wujec explores what we can learn about team building and productivity from the “marshmallow problem”– a simple team-building exercise to see who can build the tallest tower using dry spaghetti, tape and a marshmallow. What makes for the most successful teams may surprise you. “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 of our thinking, our feeling and our doing to the challenge that we have at hand.”