Nepotism: When Hiring the Best Just Won't Do

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Nepotism is something that is very hard to avoid, and very hard to resist, even if you know it may be the wrong thing to do. We all love helping out families get ahead, but you're also costing someone else an opportunity when you play ball.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuff Works.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:43.2	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry Rowling over there.
0:48.5	And that's the McDonald Triad.
0:51.1	What's that?
0:55.9	Really?
0:56.9	I'm just...
0:57.9	Wow, you are spacey today.
0:59.5	We literally talked about it 10 minutes ago.
1:01.9	Oh, that.
1:02.9	Yeah.
1:03.9	Sorry.
1:04.9	You know, bedwiting, fire starting, harming animals.
1:06.5	Yeah, I was thinking of...
1:07.5	I call fire starting.
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