http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/10/nepotism.html Tim Berry on business planning, starting and growing your business, and having a life in the meantime Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:26:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/10/nepotism.html/comment-page-1#comment-94 Rodney Blocker Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:59:02 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/10/nepotism.html#comment-94 <p>I agree with you about nepotism and what it really is. There are definitely very competent family members that can run the family businesses but I have dealt with "nepotism" where very incompetent family members are in management positions are allowed to continue to "mess up" and any other employee in the company would have already been fired. It really hurts the morale of the company when this happens. To call competent family members in management positions nepotism is very much a generalization and stereotype ... I am in the midst of a transition of a family business of which I'm in the key management position and a family member isn't so I enjoyed the article in the WSJ.</p> I agree with you about nepotism and what it really is. There are definitely very competent family members that can run the family businesses but I have dealt with "nepotism" where very incompetent family members are in management positions are allowed to continue to "mess up" and any other employee in the company would have already been fired. It really hurts the morale of the company when this happens. To call competent family members in management positions nepotism is very much a generalization and stereotype … I am in the midst of a transition of a family business of which I'm in the key management position and a family member isn't so I enjoyed the article in the WSJ.

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