Build a tower, build a team

Pasta provided by https://pixabay.com/photos/noodles-spaghetti-pasta-yellow-1631863/ 

Today we had our bi-weekly one hour break again and we did look into the Spaghetti Tower Marshmallow Challenge with two teams of 4 people each.

"The basic idea is that a team is given a handful of supplies to work with — spaghetti, tape, and string — and given 18 minutes to build the tallest possible tower that can SUPPORT a marshmallow." Much more details and insights at https://tinkerlab.com/spaghetti-tower-marshmallow-challenge/. 

Key learnings:

• Fail fast, fail often
• Run as much as possible iterations
• Do not waste time with detailed planning, just do it ...
• Do not forget that the marshmallow has to go on the top in the end
• Do not underestimate the weight of the marshmallow
• Do not forget it is a team effort and you should have some fun by doing it 😉

In two weeks we will be looking into the Management 3.0 practices and an overview of the tools provided. I did already prepare a 2 minute introduction mysimpleshow explainer video,  https://www.mysimpleshow.com/, as a starting point for the colleagues. Below some reference material, just in case you are interested:

• Website:  https://management30.com/ 
• Academy:  https://academy.management30.com/ 
• Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHP0ZOHWb9K2vG9wD0csvw 
• Practices:  https://management30.com/practice/ 

Each minute you spend convincing others that your idea is remarkable is one minute less actually making it remarkable. -- Jurgen Appelo,  https://www.slideshare.net/jurgenappelo/35-best-quotes-from-management-30-workout