Managing High Potentials,
High Performers, and
High Professionals
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Managers sometimes believe they should treat all their workers
alike. To do otherwise, as every experienced manager knows, is to
beg for complaints that the manager is playing favorites. That can
lead to uncomfortable questions about why the manager is doing so.
But not all people are equally talented. If people were equally
talented, then everyone would possess the musical abilities of a
Mozart, the mathematical abilities of an Einstein, and the artistic
abilities of a Picasso. We all know those people were exceptions
because they were extraordinarily talented. Few people possess
such ...