Leigh, I appreciate a post that challenges.  Thanks. I'll be paying attention to my biases for the next few days (or however long I can stand it), but the first thoughts I had were that I try to make sure and judge individuals. I think it's wrong to judge an individual based on the behavior of someone else.  But I only have the individual's behavior upon which to make the judgments necessary for my job.

So, I'm curious where the line is regarding bias. If I'm reasonably confident that someone will be challenged with a particular task because of past experience, my job performance will come into question if I choose to offer that task to that individual against my better judgment.  I can never know for sure if one person on a team would be better for a task than another person. So how do I make the decision, get the work done, and honor the commitment I made to my boss?

Mike...