Which child is your favorite child?

What a terrible question! Right? Well maybe not when it comes to managing people in the work place. A book I am reading called "First break all the rules: What the Worlds greatest managers do differently", says that managers should not treat all employees alike. High performing, committed and engaged employees should receive different treatment than low performing non-productive employees. This is something I intrinsically knew from raising my 5 children, however I thought that I had to be politically correct as a manager and I should treat all my employees the same regardless of their performance for fear of being labeled an unfair or biased boss. What I have come to realize is that if you treat employees in accordance with their performance, commitment and engagement, it serves to increase each! Who would have thunk it?