We’re a little late to the blogging world here at Workforce Management, but we are finally going to remedy that.

This is the first of what I hope will eventually be a number of blogs on all manner of workforce topics. My little slice will be something I refer to as “The Business of Management”—a focus on all things related to managing and leading a workforce.

Of course, management and leadership are not the same thing, and as the late great management thinker Peter Drucker (see Leading Well Is Simple and Drucker Knew Best) once wrote, “To expect every manager to be a leader is futile. There are … thousands, if not millions, of managers—and leadership is the rare exception and confined to a very few individuals.”

I’ll be writing here about management, for the most part, and leadership (or the lack thereof) when appropriate. I hope you will feel free to contact me, at jhollon@workforce.com, with your thoughts, concerns, and observations about managing a workforce. I promise that I’ll use the most interesting and enlightening views in this space as frequently as possible.