Interim Executives Bring Specialty Firepower to C-Suite for Companies of All Sizes: New Association Launched

November 16, 2012

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15-November-2012 –Interim executives wage a covert war against corporate inefficiency and underperformance. Today’s launch of the Association of Interim Executives (interimexecs.com) marks a new day for interim executives and the companies that need them.

Go ahead and think of an interim executive as the James Bond of the executive suite: a nimble operator who brings the precise tools to get the job done. Now, an association has his back.
The association’s select membership includes champion business leaders who’ve already been doing the behind-the-scenes engagements, empowering them with new alliances to help increase their businesses, while promoting their specialty to companies that could benefit, from start-ups to distressed turnarounds.

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Company Owners Don’t Know It All. Seek Out Renegades.

January 28, 2015
Robert Jordan
By: Robert Jordan CEO, Association of Interim Executives

This weekend I was talking to my mother-in-law and looked up from where she was sitting to see our attic door dangling from its hinges ready to fall and clock her in the head (not a way to get bonus points with the in-laws). So I called three carpenters to quote on the fix in addition to some other odd jobs around the house. You would think three carpenters, all with good credentials might think the same way, but surprisingly that was not the case…
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Why Company Owners Are Saying Goodbye to Consultants and Hello to Interims (Featured in Huffington Post)

March 14, 2014
Robert Jordan
By: Robert Jordan CEO, Association of Interim Executives

I have lost count of the number of company owners I’ve met who need help but are scared to death about hiring a consultant. Owners say it all boils down to shoveling out a lot of cash to an outsider without being sure that it will pay off.

“I think a lot of times when the consultants come in, their big advantage is that they come across very self-confident and sound great,” a former Fortune 50 CEO recently told me in an interview. “But I’m always very worried about what I refer to as the articulate incompetent.”

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Temping at the Highest Levels: Meet the Interim Executive

May 16, 2013
Robert Jordan
By: Robert Jordan CEO, Association of Interim Executives

Fifteen years ago I ran into a friend at a conference who was about to hand me yet another business card. As I took the new card, I tried to crack a joke, asking him “Can’t you hold down a job?” Then I read:

Philip Monego
Interim CEO
Yahoo

Yes, the card actually read Yahoo and Philip really was the first CEO.

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