Is the Interim Manager an entrepreneur?
Many professions are springing up today, born of a fairly recent professional revolution. The founders of these new companies, often startups, almost all identify as entrepreneurs.
What is an entrepreneur?
An entrepreneur is someone who takes a new step, who starts something new, who innovates.
Some examples such as Henry Ford, Yoichiro Honda, Walt Disney or even Bill Gates have shown the way. More recently, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and other Jeff Bezos have become a source of inspiration for Generation Y.
Most entrepreneurs are focused on doing almost non-stop business. Each activity is a challenge, the taste for risk characterizes them. Obstacles do not scare them, and they always recover successfully from their failures. Work, the “grinding” version, does not impress them, it is even a way of life. The desire to always learn more and discover is a constant…
Do you recognize yourself in this description? So no doubt you are an entrepreneur.
For Interim Managers we prefer to speak of intrapreneur, because they work within an already existing structure and are not intended to stay. But their state of mind is the same: they are constantly innovating, since the missions are rarely alike. They are creative, disruptive, and true ambassadors of continuing education.
Training: Basic principle for Interim Managers
Train others, to make them capable of assuming their own responsibilities. Training their teams, making strategic additions by creating pivotal positions, mastering the range of talents already available within the company… these are all areas in which entrepreneurs shine, and interim managers excel.
A fashion phenomen ?
Although the terms entrepreneur/intrapreneur have been used all over the place for a few years, the examples cited above show us that it is a real way of living and working, not an ephemeral trend.
It’s hard to give the perfect recipe for becoming an entrepreneur. That being said, entrepreneurs generally get up very early, go to bed late, and check their emails almost constantly. The 35-hour weeks are only a formality, very often below reality. They do not calculate the price of their efforts, but rejoice in the fruits of their hard work. Even the sky isn’t a limit!
There is no need to recount again the merits and benefits of transition managers in companies. In many companies in difficulty, intrapreneur Managers are a real source of stability and inspiration for employees.
When intrapreneurship becomes a need
Reading these lines, did you think that this temperament is lacking in your company?
Many seek to change the routine of managing, simply with other terms. We hear more and more about humanist management, disembodied management, or even the “true” ethics of management. All these ideas are good in themselves but very often, especially in France, we say it without doing it. We define the desires for change with new terms, without ever applying them. We stir up the dust just to let it settle.
Interim management, through its intrapreneurial basis, is one of the fundamentals of managerial success. Long-time Transition Managers have proven it. Their experience and their efficiency are synonymous with a breath of fresh air for many companies in danger or in simple desire for change, transformation.
So instead of wanting to change things without ever taking action, why not try Interim Management?
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