I had the same reaction to an article posted a while back about managing bright people. I mean, isn't treating other people with respect something that works with everybody, not those who make the cutoff of a standard score of 130 on an IQ test?
Yes, but in order to treat everyone respectfully, you have to understand what respect for that person looks like. It would, for example, be disrespectful to expect average employees who might
need a lot of direction to accomplish their work well to function under the same loose guidelines and autonomous working conditions that you might rightly give someone who was working creatively at the cutting edge of their field, just as it would be disrespectful to expect the creative innovator to work under the close management supervision of someone who might not even be able to understand their work or its greater implications. The key is to understand that individuals vary greatly in how they think and what they need, and then act on that individualized understanding...but that understanding is often precisely what is lacking.
