What I think about TED " Build a tower, build a team"

I would like to write about a talk of TED "Build a tower, build a team" by Tom Wujec.

http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower/transcript?language=en

The other day, in Daniel Pink’s speech, I heard / learned that the reward-and-punishment approach, often doesn’t work, and often does harm. Tom Wujec also experienced a similar phenomenon during the workshop of the marshmallow challenge. He offered a 10,000 dollar prize of software to the winning team. Nevertheless, the result was even worse. Therefore, incentivizing doesn’t lead to better consequences.

The second time around, understanding the value of prototyping helped the same team go from being the very worst to being among the very best.

Daniel Pink says that the new operating system for our businesses revolves around three elements: autonomy, mastery and purpose. Tom Wujec talked about how prototyping is effective to design, which is a creative activity.

Come to think of it, the prototyping involves Mastery. Building a prototype is just the iterative process to get better and better at something that matters. Pink says that Mastery means the desire to get better and better at something that matters.

Tom Wujec explains one approach of mastery through prototyping. Making a prototype, getting feedback, refining work, and facilitating the process. Prototyping uses these iterative processes to get better at designing or resolving issues.

In addition, the words, “the marshmallow challenge” are used in this speech. It’s a “challenge” not a “task”, a “problem”, or a “question”. It seems to be the key word for intrinsic motivation. We should think that our work is challenging or choose a challenging job or find challenging factors in our work.