{"id":324,"date":"2011-01-19T17:34:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=324"},"modified":"2011-01-19T17:34:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:34:18","slug":"word-of-the-day-yellitocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/word-of-the-day-yellitocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day:  Yellitocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can now cross &#8220;invent a word&#8221; off my bucket list. \u00a0According to Google, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Yellitocracy\">yellitocracy<\/a>&#8221; is a brand new word.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean? \u00a0A <em>yellitocracy<\/em> is an organization where &#8220;<em>he who yells the loudest, wins<\/em>&#8220;. \u00a0 These can sometimes occur when you gather a group of smart, hardworking, passionate,\u00a0opinionated\u00a0and competitive people.<\/p>\n<p>Passion is a good thing, especially in startups, but sometimes the culture can become less than constructive. \u00a0I&#8217;ve seen groups that devolved into &#8220;debate club&#8221;, where ideas are judged on how well (and loudly) they&#8217;re argued, not on the merits of the ideas themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Often, the best ideas aren&#8217;t screamed &#8212; they&#8217;re mal-formed (initially) &amp; stated very quietly. \u00a0If you&#8217;re not listening carefully, you&#8217;ll miss them. \u00a0Worse, you may lose some smart &amp; competent people because they don&#8217;t feel they fit in to the culture.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a yellitocracy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can now cross &#8220;invent a word&#8221; off my bucket list. \u00a0According to Google, &#8220;yellitocracy&#8221; is a brand new word. What does it mean? \u00a0A yellitocracy is an organization where &#8220;he who yells the loudest, wins&#8220;. \u00a0 These can sometimes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/word-of-the-day-yellitocracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}