Amy Iorio: Yahoo GM's nepotism irks as layoffs loom

"Surrounding yourself with people you know is a great survival strategy for middle managers and up. Very little backstabbing among relatives (relatively). Rarely is it good for the organization however, for that very same reason. Objective and clear communications go right out the window. It should have set warning bells off all over the organization long before now.

This is probably more a symptom than a cause of internal rot, meaning there is probably much more of it than has been leaked.

I'm sure companies like Google and Microsoft are not immune either, unless they have strict policies to prevent it."

Surrounding yourself with people you know is a great survival strategy for middle managers and up. Very little backstabbing among relatives (relatively). Rarely is it good for the organization however, for that very same reason. Objective and clear communications go right out the window. It should have set warning bells off all over the organization long before now.

This is probably more a symptom than a cause of internal rot, meaning there is probably much more of it than has been leaked.

I'm sure companies like Google and Microsoft are not immune either, unless they have strict policies to prevent it.