Tom Wujec: The Marshmallow Challenge

Posted on August 27th, 2010 in All Videos,Business,Quickies,Society

7 minutes

Tom Wujec studies team dynamics and puts on workshops around team building and prepares groups to solve large and complex problems. During his workshops he gives teams The Marshmallow Challenge, an 18 minute challenge to build the tallest structure from a few items including spaghetti and marshmallows. Interestingly, kindergarteners produce some of the tallest structures. Tom chalks up their success to iterative prototyping and trying lots of ideas. On the contrary, business school students do the worst.


Jason Fried: Collaborating at 37 Signals

Posted on January 6th, 2007 in All Videos,Business,Leaders,Technology

23 minutes

Jason Fried, one of 7 members of the 37Signals software company speaks in this video on collaboration. He stresses maintaining small teams, using passive means for collaboration, allowing ‘alone-time’ for people to work without interruption, make lots of very small decisions constantly, and to use meetings as a last resort to share information.