Systems Model = Nodes + Links Nodes -> Represent tangible objects Links -> Represent connections between the nodes

I loved his style of presentation. Specially starting with humor and well synced visual content with talk.

I love that toast examples. I also agree that conversations are very important aspects of that process. Thank you for inspiration! I think I'm gonna make a visualization too.

thank you for sharing this sense-making process. It is great.

this reminds me of those beginning programming assignments where they tell you write down the instructions of how to make a sandwich and then demonstrate what happens if someone follows those instructions at face value.

Have played this video a couple of times in various classes using it for topics like creativity innovation decision making etc management and leadership. Love showing it great speaker and concept and yes sure beats a meeting around a board table. Did something like this when setting a mission vision core value statements strategy for a company.

Such a great look into human behavior and decision making!

Simple, profound, and elegant!

Excellent presentation/talk about how to solve wicked business (complex) problems ... THANK YOU !!

When the caveman came back after searching for game, he took a stick and made a map on the ground, then they made some verbal discussion. The most basic communication is pictures, then connections to different pictures. It’s hard to see the big picture using just verbiage, we lose the overall concept, and get hung up on minutiae or even emotions and personality. A picture is worth a thousand words but two pictures and you get a narrative toward a goal or finished product. I aways knew this was true, but as a dyslexic, it was always the picture first, then the connection, (the process). Even if I didn’t draw it, I made the picture in my brain, as visualization, then proceeded. Thank you, Tom Wujec, I get it, completely.

This is a great illustration and technique for planning out business and other projects. I am going to use this video when I train my clients.

a new tool for my continious improvement arsenal.... thank you!

Great talk

Very well done!

I love that guy in the audience that laughs at every drawing!

Good talk.

I love toast! Awesome presentation. 😀

Great job!

About silence - absolutely true. That's why I went to remote work. My productivity increased minimum in x5 times ! It was a key tangeble action in my life.

Can somebody tell me that what kind of software can made the slideshow in this video? Please! It's really looks good and can remote with controller.

6:38 - "I'm convinced that those who see their world as movable nodes and links really have an edge." 🤣🤣🤣 That hurts my point set topology brain.

great idea

I think it's interesting that group models that work silently, work out much better.

Great!

The guy on laugh track is effective.

The guy who started with the Big Bang is a legend, had me cackling.

Well done Tom Wujec - awesome presentation. #Believe

Man, I read the title wrong...I thought this was about how one makes A toast reveals their problem solving ability/disability! I wish to make a toast: "A toast to thank you, Sir, for your talk. May the process you spoke on be of great aid to many! Blessings to you!"

What rwally catches my attention is this laugh from one of the audience. Sounds like a man who's really just giving it all in his laugh. You hear him most during the first minutes of this TED Talk. Quite interesting to know how he can laugh that way. ;D

Great talk!!!! :)

Suddenly I am hungry for toast.

A beautiful sales pitch.. I love his solution

That guy's laugh...

love the merciless laughing from the audience

"Talking gets in the way." "Conversations are the important aspect." Back to the drawing board for you.

How do get such a template on powerpoint?

First he says talking gets in the way, then he says it's the conversations that are important.

I have been a whiteboard person for much of my life, ever since I graduated from chalk on blackboards. My design process - for hardware projects or website interfaces or policy documents or legal challenges - requires detailed and complete and precise visualization - and I still find this to go fastest using the whiteboard + post-it notes approach. I had really hoped that integrating Project with Visio was going to make my life better, and my work easier, but it didn't. The whiteboard still rules. I keep a stack of them cut to 3' X 4' leaned against the wall. The most compelling example I have ever seen of another person revealing his whiteboard-based process is on the extras disc DVD of a movie called "Taking Woodstock" by Ang Lee. The walls of their production tent are paved with a series of 4 X 8 marlite sheets (same stuff I use) that are each butted end-to-end to form a belt around the room. Most panels have been gridded into a huge 4' X 32' (?) spreadsheet. The cells are about 2"X 2" and accept post-it notes, The first sheet has the row headings and in these headings are the main project assets (actors, objects, etc.) the column headings are individual camera shots. What the camera sees in that shot is listed in that column Post-it notes can denote details, nuances, etc. In the "extra" movie, you get to watch the Director and his assistants realize how inserting an actress and an object into the opening long shot and reappear in front of the camera in several of the early scenes - far earlier than the script had called for - create a deep and important thread of meaning that the viewer is not even aware of as it is being developed. After the whiteboard comes the light table and pencil on paper. Everything is developed on 8.5 X 11 first at small scale and then at plan scale using overlapping pages that tile together to create a larger drawing. I use the eraser constantly and work both sides of the paper to move components around as their 'optimal' relationships emerge. Back in the 80's I started developing multidimensional CAD software to try to simplify and speed this process, but I am fully convinced that it just gets in the way, for me. And FWIW, I work in silence. Talking and listening to talking or listening to music distract and that DEFINITELY gets in the way of my visualization. HT/t ***** whose post on G+ this AM turned me on to this video, on the TED site

I think the most efficient explanation was 1:26 Bread + Fire = Toast.

I had been in printing for 20 years (or more) and the exercise of putting jelly down before you put down the peanut butter really teaches a bunch. There is actually a reason for putting one thing before another!

this is pretty funny ahahha :D but makes sense! love it!

Important video to watch for any Lean / Lean Six Sigma trainer or coach who teaches Process Mapping and Value Street mapping

Now THIS is a great TedTalk. John V. Karavitis

5:35: “If they do it in complete silence, they do it much better and much more quickly”, vs. 7:14: “What’s really important is that it’s the conversations that are the important aspects, not just the models themselves”. The two appear to contradict each other, and I find the latter more intuitive.

Solve problems through colaborative visualization...interesting.

Nice

if i wud hv been told to draw a toast.. i wud hv made leo lifting a glass of champagne😂🤣😂

excellent.

Visualisation is enhanced by drawing which is Art , creativity , I am an Art therapist , and Artist . Art helps in problem solving skills

Thank you all

nice vid

The pedant in me upon hearing 0:42 "Without using any words" couldn't help but notice the word 0:58 "Jam" written.

@Tom Wujec. Are you aware that the link to subscribe to your newsletter on the draw toast website is not working?

O site dele? Não consigo acessar 😢

The problem is that much more interesting in the context where none of the participants know what Toast is

It does not result from the talk if he took into account the size of the work space when calculating the average number of nodes. I think the size of the work space influences the number of notes somewhat. More than five nodes look crowded on a A4 sheet but simplistic on a white board. Overall the talk is interesting, and someone definitely worked a lot on the slides. :)

Yo this changed my perspective on toast- really..

Ive been trying to access the 'draw toast' website but it won't load. . . .has it been removed?

is this how you youngsters describe flowcharts these days?

works for anything ofcourse, programm engineering for example

I'm american and i make toast on a square griddle pan with a little butter. It's way better than out of a toaster.

Silence would improve efficiency for the groups notes because of argumentative personalities. There's always a conflict

We have computers too.

Better option: Play 'I am Bread'.

The last one is most correct: heat source on bread. The group is all males.

hows this different from mind maps exactly? not being sarcastic I'm genuinely interested in this stuff

5:33 and 7:14 don't mesh

what would Aristotle think about this approach?

That guy in the audience should get free admittance to every Ted Talk

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mum make me a toast

Play I am Toast

Seems more like an advertisement.

Would be good in 3D because it would give the links more flexibility and nodes could be aligned with better grouping - virtual app waiting to happen!

Redefine customer: a person or thing of a specified kind that one has to deal with. In academia, full time faculty have 3 customers relating to 1) research, 2) teaching, and 3) service. 1) Senior colleagues, and peer reviewers (scholarship and performance evaluation) 2) Students (eg, course design, delivery, and assessment by them and peers in your department/college) & 3) ppl with roles in shared governance (eg department faculty meetings and college/university committee work and professional service). Our first priority at an R1 institution is publishing scholarship. Teaching 2-3 courses a term is done pragmatically in exchange for summers off. And service is a principal of reciprocal exchange for maintaining democracy in a state or private social institution. This is the teamwork makes the dream or mission work at a micro and macro level. The make toast model may need to be iterative of all these conditions of being a professor not to mention work/life balance, privacy, sociality, and assessment and reinvention. Focusing solely on students or teaching is naive and simplistic for both our students and ourselves as faculty.

Nice video, I need to do exactly this on today's meeting.

I never made toast in a frying pan... o_O Neither do I know any European that does... O_o

Toast

Any LASA students here right now?

i am here from a reddit post

Games are made the same way, right? and movies and other entertainment

Lol, I just imagined what would the comment section look like if a woman gave this talk: "Conquer the world by drawing! Another simple and silly idea to solve all our problems.." "so much pseudo-intellectual gibberish and so little content" "that's like the oldest idea ever. how do these ppl even get invited to these things?!" "Ok, you promoted your groundbreaking drawing site, you can go home now" EDIT: I hope I'm not being misunderstood here. What I meant is that women tend to be judged more harshly by YT community when they give a TED talk that's not ''straight to the point" (.. or maybe just a TED talk). But hey, I could be wrong. The claim is still to be proven.

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He's wicked smaht.

Mom make me toast xdd

The bumblebee does not know that it can't make toast.

I was unfortunate enough to stumble upon this video... His main point to success is a company called Rodale. I publishing company founded in 1930. I company that was passed down through the generations by birthright and marriage. The apex is about a bloated executive finally being forced to do the minimum required to successfully perform their hired function, and turn an established company around that they help destroy. Impressive.

3:00 "less than 5 nodes and the drawing seems trivial". So they're accurate flowcharts then. Newsflash: Making toast is trivial.

I'm hungry for toast. I'm going to make some toast right now.

Sounds like the Toastmaster himself was in the audience

no correct

This is still linear. We live in a non-linear world.

wtf who uses a frying pan to toast? greetings from europe, no one does this! (i guess and hope)

God, I hate it when I watch a ted and it turns out to be some guy who sells something.

The talk got wicked problems wrong... The talk is merely about alignment problems of heterogenous viewpoints... A wicked problem can not be aligned by an "simple" agreement. Each solution produces other problems, due to (e.g) conflincting objectives of completely independent stakeholders. All your examples are based on different viewpoints on the same subject, not on completly contradicting requirements where, if you reach one objective, you are simply can't achieve an other objectives. In real wicked problems, there is just no "real" agreement without excluding a significant share of the stakeholders.

Most businesses can't afford a team of graduate school dropouts to waste time doing this kind of thing nowadays.

This has nothing to do with problem solving- let alone solving a 'wicked' problem. This is process mapping- it only works if you know each step in the solution... 🙄

_Degrees of Freedom_ Karl Schroeder

This is a great approach to simple problems, but definitely not to wicked problems. This person is using this term incorrectly. Still a nice video

Brainstorming session with less words and more diagrams,those who wish may have a quick nap unnoticed.Nice drawings.