People, work and management

It's difficult to cover workplace, management and leadership issues as fully as I would like in my various newspaper and magazine columns. This new blog is designed to cover opinions and news items that I think are worth considering for human resources professionals and anyone else who takes an interest in the way that people develop their careers.

The aim is to separate the writing on such issues that appears in Donkin Life so that those concerned only with management issues need not worry about the other musings that invade my daily life.

In Sunday newspaper parlance I am "sectionalising" my offerings enabling you to look only at those bits that interest you. I hope this does not prove as much an annoyance for you as all those bits of Sunday papers have proved for me. If you don't like this new approach, please tell me and I will have a rethink.

Every week I have about three or four ideas for my Financial Times column and only one of them makes it. This can disappoint some people - writers, consultants, companies, PR people - who all think that their stuff is most worthy of coverage. Some of this material is indeed interesting although there is a lot of tripe out there and I consider it part of my job to offer a measure of protection from such rubbish to those who take the time to stop here.

That is not to say you will never read rubbish in this blog. But if you do so, I sincerely hope that it will be my rubbish.

If, in the meantime, you're wondering what inspired this coming Thursday's column in the FT, I would urge you to visit this site that introduces Randy Pausch. More about this on RichardDonkin.com later this week, or read my Thursday column.