mash-ups :- )

I have always kept, at least, three 'hats' within arm's reach.

The first 'hat' is being a TQM/ Kaizen/ Lean Six Sigma guy for, at least, a decade now. I have done projects implementing these methodologies and tools. The second 'hat' is being a paid actor. I have done professional theater, and still from time to time, TV ads. And the third 'hat' is being a learning facilitator and talent developer. I am a professor at an engineering school, during TThS, facilitating engineering courses and at the same time, during MWF, a steward of a talent and casting agency.

From experience, these 'hats' have harmoniously co-existed. In fact, they have complemented one another for it has a common denominator - a person. This person could be a client. In other days, an audience or a caster. In other days, a student. And in other days, a talent.

All want the same thing - another person who can assist them face the challenge or task at hand.

This morning, the three got mash-up :- )

Thanks to Sir Ken Robinson.

Zen espouses that perfection happens when there is nothing to take out. In lean thinking, its application is in the precept that one does not do anything that is unnecessary so that effort can be placed on necessary things.

Transporting this to a classroom or in a learning situation - all that is necessary is really a professor and a student. And progression happens when that give and take learning relationship between a teacher and a student is developed.

And this development happens when the learning facilitator, the actor, can make the student, the audience, identify with him :- )

A glorious mash-up!

"... why think like mere men?"