Sentences with phrase «about nepotism»

Some investors get a little hysterical about nepotism, but I'm fairly relaxed myself... Management's an intangible asset after all — being raised at your father's knee, and discussing the family business (es) over dinner each evening, may confer a substantial intangible advantage another CEO candidate can't hope to match (even if they look much better on paper).

He had to be angry about the nepotism that made a Don out of a greenhorn like Michael.

«This is how high the levels of nepotism have gotten to under this administration which bleated about nepotism under the ex-president John Dramani Mahama's administration,» he posited.

«They talked about nepotism, cronyism and so on.

Not exact matches

«In start - up companies, it's all about «who do I trust» and sometimes nepotism will come in,» Fraedrich says, and family - run businesses have to be especially vigilant against an ethical lapse that could lead at best to employee dissatisfaction and at worst to a discrimination suit.

She really didn't think in gendered terms, she says; she was «more concerned about being the daughter of the founder and therefore needing to perform better than others so as not to give the impression of nepotism.»

Since first debuting in Al Pacino's Any Given Sunday, «The Game of Inches» has grown in worldwide popularity thanks to the advent of 30 - second television commercials and an unfair narrative about Joe Buck, King of Bias and Prince of Nepotism.

This nepotism can also lead to the owners being more concerned about having and retaining power than making decisions that are in the best interests of the business.

It's a pretty complicated situation, involving important conversations about journalistic integrity, nepotism and online threats.

Everything Glassie wrote in 2012 is still true, from the conditioning (funny how our team complains about fatigue the most) to injuries to laughing while losing to nepotism for coaching hires to failed draft picks without any accountability.

According to Brogya Genfi, it came as no surprise when one of the NPP's stocks Prof. Stephen Addae issued a statement expressing his displeasure about the levels of nepotism in the administration.

In interviews, 150 employees and others told Fisch's investigators a decade's worth of stories about no - bid contracts, personal favors and nepotism at the fair under Cappuccilli and other directors.

• That there is openness about appointments to committees, about consultants and about hiring staff to ensure there is proper vetting, avoidance of conflicts of interest and nepotism.

No matter how Parete speculates about what «65 - year - olds won't like», retirees still bristle at the low - grade corruption that seems to always accompany our county's persistent culture of insider nepotism.

Coming through very strongly in the comments on Jac's article is the message about the electorate (particularly Labour supporters) being sick to death of the old ways, the nepotism, jobs for the boys, Westminster elite, professional politician types.

The governor was reacting to the criticism that greeted his comment in which he was quoted as carpeting the Catholic bishops who paid a visit to Buhari last week and expressed their misgivings about the President's perceived nepotism and killings by Fulani herdsmen in parts of the country.

Instead, each of the panel members talked about how we found our own careers through serendipitous meetings, friends - of - friends, and good old blatant nepotism.

I'm talking about young director Jason Reitman, the scion of Ivan («Ghostbusters»), battling suspicions of Hollywood nepotism, and one - time stripper Diablo Cody who, prior to this, had never written a script.

Betty's sweet personality is wasted on most of her colleagues, such as shrewish creative director, Wilhelmina Slater (Vanessa Williams), who's upset about being passed over for a deserved promotion to the top job because of nepotism.

Charter schools had become a bone of contention among lawmakers as some questioned the accountability of charters after high - profile problems with the Hartford - based Jumoke Academy that included financial miscues, nepotism and concern about a former chief executive officer who had lied about having a doctorate degree before admitting that he did not.

The state was supposed to be monitoring the schools in the Commissioner's Network, but it seems that Estela Lopez did not take this charge seriously — nor did the other board members, who act shocked that no background checks were required for employees of a State charter school; no policies in place about hiring / nepotism; no concern about a lack of curriculum; no urgency about teacher certification.

As always, Isabel's life is full: she has articles to read for the Review if Applied Ethics, an instance of nepotism by Professor Lettuce to deal with, decisions to make about rising journal production costs, and 2 1/2 year - old Charlie has started swearing.

Mr. Dvorak operated a blog about union matters on which he authored a blog post, and permitted the posting of a comment written by someone else, accusing Ms. Taylor - Baptiste of nepotism and incompetence.

What about natural intelligence, socioeconomic status and nepotism?

She spoke some hard truths about ethical and behavioural standards within ATSIC, nepotism and other issues.