Sunil Kaushik, a fellow Influential Voices blogger recently wrote about how he practiced lean principles to travel to Egypt (you can read about his excellent experience here). His blog opened a great topic for this month´s respond: “how to apply our profession in our daily life”.
That triggered an old “mental exercise” about creating a work related comic or sitcom. Many of our daily work experiences can either be compared with an old “Twilight Zone” episode, or something out of “The Office” British and American sitcoms. So a couple of folks and I talked one afternoon about creating a work related TV show, of course we knew nothing about TV producing, but that did not stop us from escaping our responsibilities of that day and wasting a whole afternoon creating “Hard Work” the sitcom. We even created the main characters and gave them meaningful names related mostly to their skills (or lack of them). So let me introduce the characters of “Hard Work” and their general profiles. The original names are in Spanish so I will try to complement them with a similar name in English. There is no intention of being disrespectful to anybody. Here they are. ROGELIO PROMEDIO. Average Roger. He is a company analyst who uses averages for everything. He has good intentions but lacks real analysis tools so he sticks to the average formula he learned in a statistics class long ago. He is a little overweight; he is close to 30 years old and spends most of his time in the company.
