Got Family

This is Got Family and I am Carey Berger. You know, George Carlin so many years ago talked about the 7 dirty words. For some folks there's another one, there is an eighth and it is called nepotism. Isn’t nepotism a dirty word? And it kind of is in one setting to the extent that nepotism means that we’re going to advance somebody for no reason of their own that they've earned but simply because they’re a member of, sorry it sounds gross, but the lucky sperm club. If that's the only reason why they got advanced then yes, that's a dirty word. It helps nobody, it disenfranchises the employees who are working hard, it dumbs down the capability of the organization because you’ve got someone that is really not able to do the job and it gives a sense of the really dirty word that I am most offended by which is entitlement. That's all a dirty word absolutely no question. However, it is not always a dirty word because there is another way of looking at nepotism and that's this: assuming that the person we’re talking ab