Circle, Chain, Pyramid of Yelling

Anyone ever watch that show "How I met Your Mother"? I find that show pretty darn hilarious and last night one of the themes of the show was the reason why I do not work in corporate america any more.

Barney talked about the Circle (or Chain or Pyramid) of Yelling - you all have experienced the one at work where the Top Dawg at your company yells at someone, who yells at someone, who yells at your boss, who yells at you.

It can go many places from there - you can yell at someone working for you or you go home and yell at your wife, who then yell at someone at her office - so on and so on.

Technically it is never really a circle because the big guy never completes the circles and gets yelled at back.

Sounds like a bad Dilbert cartoon - the funny part about it is there are never any suggestions to improve or offers to assist - it is just the simple quote "get it done" or maybe "do it better" or "improve your productivity" the funniest "work smarter not harder" (what does that mean any way)

When I worked in a large corporate office I was never successful in the Chain of Yelling because I believed that I could get things done with others without yelling, however, after many management changes the last regime were a lot of yellers but never any suggestions or offers for assistance - just yellers (I have my thoughts why but those are for another day)- I was only a few clicks from the CEO so I guess I got to hear it loud and clear on a few occasions, but I tried never to pass it down - I always tried to stop it and figure a way to fix the problem.

Now as a small business owner the only person to yell at is myself (and that happens on occassion), or I guess my business partner. BUT, he is also my coach so if I yell at him then there will be no yelling back just some uber hard workouts!!! :-) Actually there is nothing to yell about - there are plenty of things to talk about and things that we need to work on - but yelling is going to get us no where.

Any way - I thought the show was hilarious and the next time you need to yell determine if it is going to accomplish anything or just make you feel better because you were yelled at?? Stop the Chain!

Happy Yelling - I mean Training