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Leading Network - Interim

Manager’s profile
The distinctive characteristic of this profession is the different approach between a manager who runs a company as a whole and a manager who has to handle specific change processes. In the first case key operations regard business continuity, including defending and developing one’s own role inside the organisation; in the second case the crucial point is carrying out a change process and preparing the organisation once the appointed manager has to leave.  

A cross-cutting vision of processes
Managing complex and articulated change processes requires a non-sectoral company vision, which is typical of a manager who already has a solid experience as a Managing Director, General Manager, and Business Unit Manager. 

Special skills at driving changes
A manager wishing to engage in this profession has to know how not to “own” the business reality for which she/he was appointed to act. 
This shall allow him/her to be fairly involved in it: a key point to concentrate on project development and then be ready to quickly end his/her mission within the company. This uncertainty shall not be felt as a problem by the manager, since it belongs to this career and is usually overcome by a strong self-esteem, having its roots in his/her track records of success and solid network of professional relationships from where he/she can get new career opportunities. 

Independence of judgment, authoritativeness and personal charisma

Independence of judgment is a must to listen to the opinion of other people, without being influenced by consolidated business visions which are, on the contrary, the object of change. Since the manager is the actor of change, he/she must develop his/her own leadership in an authoritative manner and know how to involve the company's property, management and personnel within the new business patterns brought about by this change.

Interim Management started officially developing in Italy (1986-1987) thanks to pioneering intuition of two people, namely Angelo Vergani and Albino Collini, who ended up by defining and implementing the same kind of service for companies. 
In 1994 the first structured research on the state of the art of IM in Italy was conceived, carried out and coordinated by Maurizio Quarta, in cooperation with “L’Impresa – Mondo Economico, Coopers & Lybrand” and “Contract Manager” on a sample of 104 companies and 271 managers. Nowadays the situation has changed. Besides the specialised companies that launched this activity, in Italy there are also head hunters, consulting firms, groups of managers, freelancing managers, and associations for developing Interim Management. 

Differences between Interim Management and Executive Consulting are more and more clear: while consultancy identifies change opportunities and strategies, an Interim Manager, as a part of the client’s organisation, has to handle its implementation.


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