Nepotism : Good or Bad

(via HBS) Gill Corkindale discusses the unspoken rules of nepotism. She was a personal victim of it. She was working with a pleasant, if unremarkable, young man who had just joined the newspaper from a local rag. He was inexperienced and finding it hard to adjust to the relentless deadlines, but we were happy to help out and answer his interminable questions. Three months later, we discovered that he had just been made our boss. It didn’t make sense. He still couldn’t handle the pressure and knew the least on the desk, but he had the job. read more >>>