Somewhat related idea: given an employee who's stellar in some areas and not so stellar in others, do you try to even their attributes out, or do you develop th

Somewhat related idea: given an employee who's stellar in some areas and not so stellar in others, do you try to even their attributes out, or do you develop the areas where they're stellar even further? I'm a fan of this line of thought: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/02/mediocrity_by_a.html http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/0... So many people are focused on bringing everyone up to some base level of mediocrity in every imaginable area, but what if we instead focused on finding brilliance, then doing everything we can to amplify that brilliance? Which might, of course, include working on some of those areas for improvement, but intelligently, with the goal of keeping those weaknesses from impeding excellence elsewhere.