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Interim Management provides practical advice on how to succeed as an interim manager. In this candid appraisal of interim management, Russell demonstrates the pitfalls and benefits of being an interim manager.Interim managers are most definitely not 'between jobs', but are a new breed of 'portfolio worker'. They are trained, professional, temporary managers, hired by organizations that need to increase their management strengths for a short period. They help to solve resourcing problems eg*they provide cover for someone who is absent or during a long recruitment campaign*they handle projects that could deflect senior management attention away from key objectives*international specialists provide help with acquiring, integrating, running and overhauling businesses overseas.Unlike consultants they take on full responsibility for the process and the outcome - they manage and do rather than analyse and recommend. They become part of the client team. There are approximately 10 - 15,000 interim managers in the UK. The market is increasing by at least 30% per annum. A complete guide to being an interim managerAuthor is Client Services Director for Praxis, one of the leading agencies which places interim managersFeatures case studies and profiles of interim managers in action

On April 9, 1947, Commissioner Happy Chandler shocked the baseball world by suspending Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher for "conduct detrimental to baseball." The Dodgers' Branch Rickey signed Burt Shotton as an interim replacement. Shotton had enjoyed a solid if unspectacular playing and managerial career. Little in his background indicated the success he would have-that fall he led the Dodgers to the National League pennant, and in 1949 he did it again. His success has long been overshadowed by his losses in the World Series, causing many to forget his role in establishing the Dodgers' winning tradition in the mid-1940s and 1950s.