Gretchen from the Microsoft Jobs Blog talks about leveraging people's strengths and recognizing their weaknesses.
In my opinion this is something that businesses still do not do properly. Rather than help tailor duties, schedules and processes to better suit the individuals, managers always shoot for a common ground. Unfortunately this usually turns out to be what is most cost efficient and what satisfies the execs, but rarely is it the best process for the company or the individual.
Well, off to a meeting. More on this later.