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For a book-length exposition on this theme, read https://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-Rules-Differently/dp/1531865208 https://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-Rules-Differently/dp/.... The book didn't intend to be a book-length exposition. But the common insight that they found among good managers is that people come lop-sided. They have strengths and weaknesses that they aren't going to change. When you try to make people work on their weaknesses, you're virtually guaranteed to fail and make them miserable in the process. But instead figure out how to tailor their jobs to their talents and they will outperform. If you can pair up people with complementary talents, the combination will do much better than either person could on their own. The book then includes example after example from industry after industry. For everything from housekeeping in a hotel to being a bartender to data entry. For each of these jobs, there are people whose talents will make them ridiculously better at it. (Side note. That is the only management book that I recommend to non-managers.)