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Tanveer Naseer

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What The Marshmallow Challenge Can Teach Us About Fostering Team Success

Tanveer Naseer

Imagine walking into work one day and your boss decides to divide you into teams of four with the following challenge – to build the largest structure you can using 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string and one marshmallow, which has to be placed at the top of the structure. It’s an unusual assignment, to be sure, but it’s also the basis of a sociological experiment on teamwork called “ The Marshmallow Challenge ”.