Interim managers write reference book "HR - Human Resources in Times of Crisis

"HR - Human Resources in Times of Crisis: Interim Managers report from the field": This is the title of a new book. In it, the authors Urs Affolter, Ulvi Aydin, Ulf Camehn, Udo Fichtner, Detlef Georg, Michael Gutowski, Hans Rolf Niehues, Dr. Frank Orthmann, Dr. Harald Schönfeld, Paul Stricker, Dr. Detlef Weber and Karlheinz Zuerl, with their joint initiative, want to give tips and tricks to the medium-sized economy in particular that have grown out of operational practice, on how to counteract the shortage of specialists and managers. "There are no other executives than interim managers, who get to know so many companies and so many different business challenges in the course of their professional lives," says publisher Dr. Harald Schönfeld, explaining why the authors are particularly suited to the topic.

Six authors are members of the UN Diplomatic Council think tank

The new reference book will be published in the series "Learning from Interim Managers", which the UN think tank Diplomatic Council is publishing together with United Interim, the leading community for interim managers in German-speaking countries. The series has already published multi-author volumes on specialist topics such as business transformation and industries such as automotive or mechanical and plant engineering. In addition to the extensive compendiums, which have featured numerous authors, the series has published individual books on the topics of "Resilient Digital Supply Chains," "Sales and Marketing Intelligence," "Technical Purchasing," "Management in China," and "Brand Risk Management." Six of the authors of the new work on human resources are members of the Diplomatic Council and have already made a name for themselves through several book publications: Udo Fichtner, Michael Gutowski, Hans Rolf Niehues, Dr. Detlef Weber and Karlheinz Zuerl.

Most successful book series for interim managers 

According to the publisher, the reference book series "Learning from Interim Managers" is the most successful book series for interim managers with over three million "eyeballs" - the currency for attention in the digital economy. This includes both those who read the books and those who via who read books, especially in the press and social media. After all, it's not just about the books that appear in hardcover, paperback and e-book form, but far beyond that a holistic ecosystem around the authors of these works. This includes professional marketing by the renowned PR agency euromarcom public relations. All the works in the reference book series are available from more than 5,600 booksellers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as all the usual online book mail order companies.

Book authors: Interim managers and their topics

Within the framework of the book series, the following interim managers have so far distinguished themselves with their topics: "Learning from Interim Managers" (Dr. Harald Schönfeld, Jürgen Becker), "Marketing and Sales Intelligence in Mechanical Engineering" (Eckhart Hilgenstock), "The Importance of Leadership and Management" (Peter Lüthi), "Intelligent Supply Chain Management" (Jane Enny van Lambalgen), "Improving Profitability and Liquidity" (Hans Rolf Niehues), "Technical Purchasing" (Manfred Richter), "Trend Surfing with KPIs" (Michael Weimar), "The Role of the CIO in Digitalization in Mechanical Engineering" (Falk Janotta), "Building Innovation Power in Mechanical Engineering" (Dr. Uwe Seidel), "Lean management in production" (Götz Stapelfeldt), "New opportunities for value creation" (Andreas Kälber), "From the crisis to the top" (Hanno Goffin), "Successful process design" (Dr. Gerhard Müller-Spanka), "Digitalization in the Automotive Aftermarket" (Ralf-Peter Hanrieder), "Automotive Trade in Transition" (Ulf Camehn), "One-way Cost Reduction" (Frank P. Neuhaus), "Operational Task Force Management" (Ludek Cermak), "Learning from Critical Projects as a Project Manager" (Christian Ritzer), "Sanare pro Automotive: Ways out of the Crisis" (Dr. Dr. Stefan Hohberger). With this concentrated expertise from practice, the books are considered standard works in their respective fields.

"HR - Human Resources in Times of Crisis: Interim Managers Report from the Field," Urs Affolter, Ulvi Aydin, Ulf Camehn, Udo Fichtner, Detlef Georg, Michael Gutowski, Hans Rolf Niehues, Dr. Frank Orthmann, Dr. Harald Schönfeld, Paul Stricker, Dr. Detlef Weber, Karlheinz Zuerl. ISBN 978-3-98674-054-2

More information: www.diplomatic-council.org/de, www.unitedinterim.com