The crisis is the new Normal
It is very difficult to know what the unprecedented health and economic crisis in which we are confined will really change.
There is only one certainty: today, the crisis is the "New Normal". Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity are in the background. All businesses must deal with this new order and master the art of constantly reconfiguring themselves.
At Kint, we see it as a challenge rather than a problem.
We see it as a great opportunity, rather than a threat.
We see in it the possibility of a positive and lasting development, rather than an emergency to be dealt with in a timely manner.
We speak of Situation Management, and no longer of Interim or Transition Management.
With the right team, with determination and benevolence, the crisis can become a moment of conquest.
Thank you, KINT Managers!
At KINT, the expertise in the selection and the passion for the human link guarantee the effectiveness of the team and convert the crisis into an inspiring future.
This positioning is good, our first successes confirm it . A few months after our start-up, we are working in a wide variety of sectors (aeronautics, automotive, metallurgy, rail transport, retail, agrobusiness, insurance, oil & gas, shipping, software, and so on), internationally (France, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, Japan…) and we operate in key positions (CEO, CFO, Treasury and Financing, HRD, Legal Director, Site Director, Industrial Director…).
Our clients are large groups, SMEs, investment funds. Our prescribers are consultants, lawyers, head-hunters, shareholders. Our network of former clients, candidates or colleagues are our ambassadors. Thanks to them, for each mission we revisit our selection criteria, we strengthen our pool of candidates and only present those in whom we have the firm conviction that they will know how to be the men and women of the situation.
No mission has been suspended due to the current crisis, which demonstrates the solidity of our project selection and monitoring process. In the past weeks, our managers have demonstrated an unfailing commitment to the success of their missions, despite the confinement and the distance, despite sometimes tragic events in their family, despite the tensions generated by the suddenness and scale of the drop in activity, the difficulty in anticipating, the uncertainties.
It is a bond of trust that we have created in our community, with our customers and our managers. This link holds the future, an essential ingredient for reconstruction, or rather for co-construction afterwards.
Stay Home and Keep Moving!
It is on these solid foundations that we will, therefore, continue to build.
KINT is a house where life is good , where we enjoy exchanging our best practices, our experiences, our thoughts and our emotions. Our desire is to add social links to the business link, confined or not! If tele-work and tele-management are essential skills today, at KINT we have decided to create tele-coffee breaks: a few minutes of chat all together, in tele-conference on Zoom, Teams, Skype or Google Hangout ...
Creativity is part of our entrepreneurial DNA, a value shared by the entire KINT community. It is in constant motion. By building our reassuring and protective House of Managers, and perpetually reinventing, our ambition is to provide everyone with the energy and resources necessary to move forward.
For the strongest proof, the biggest news since the creation of KINT: the recruitment of Anahita Eutrope (see her LinkedIn profile here), whom we are delighted to welcome among us, at the very heart of the crisis - and who joined us in full lockdown!
Welcome Anahita!
Young thirty-something with an international and entrepreneurial profile, Anahita started her career in Venture Capital at Aster. Before joining KINT, she worked on a Leadership Lab project within HEC Paris aimed at bringing together great leaders, start-uppers and students to reinvent leadership and organizational methods in business. Anahita is a graduate of HEC Paris (MSc Management), Freie Universität Berlin (MA in Political Science) and a double MS in Sustainable Energy from Paristech Mines and Tsinghua University Beijing.
Anahita is a graduate of HEC Paris (MSc Management), Freie Universität Berlin (MA in Political Science) and a double MS in Sustainable Energy from Paristech Mines and Tsinghua University Beijing.
Let Anahita tell us herself what convinced her to join KINT.
Situation Management seen by a thirty-something:
When I heard about interim management, I went to the internet. According to the profile descriptions, the interim manager seems to tick the following boxes:
– Disengaged from the long-term vision: it is better not to get attached to colleagues; this would make the task more difficult
– In the prime of life: "you need at least 30 years of experience behind you"
– A man: who will have progressed more quickly in his career than a woman, and generally more mobile (but pay equity would still be respected in this job, fantastic!)
What about people who search for and place such profiles? A little skill test, two or three minimum follow-up calls and above all a nice commission, isn't it ??
However, behind these still widespread clichés, the profession is evolving to adapt to the needs of the market..
– On the demand side: the content of the missions has evolved from ad hoc crisis management (drop in activity, departure of an employee) to the need for continuous adaptation of the company, which is increasingly shaken by its environment (load increase, internationalization, pivot). Today, the acceleration of technological cycles, like global crises, are such that they generate constant needs for talent, capable of navigating from one cycle to the next in the life of the company..
– On the supply side: the intellectual stimulation exerted by the variety of missions, flexibility and mobility opportunities, correspond to increasingly valued advantages, especially by the self-employed and freelancers, a vocation which is constantly growing. The situation manager himself, would he/she not ultimately be a premium freelance, “executive” version?
Are we not witnessing a key turning point in the market, as witnessed by KINT when inventing Situation Management?
But then, how can we give ourselves the means to meet today's challenges in the context of increasingly complex missions?
Personally, here are the few tracks that fascinate me:
– Focus on agility, situational intelligence and soft skills, rather than age and sector expertise, while digital technology is gradually blurring the boundaries between sectors
– Give talents the opportunity to develop with peers over the long term (beyond their occasional mobilization on missions), by federating a community and by giving everyone the means to train themselves continuously
– Use digital technology as a productivity lever to speed up processes and as a tool to improve the quality of life at work
– Putting people back at the centre : while traditional management is more than ever questioned, a clear purpose meaning and positive impact are at the heart of employee expectations. Because accelerating cycles now means getting to live with a constantly high level of stress, my conviction is that we will no longer be able to do without the human factor, which directly conditions the success of the company's project.
I am delighted to participate in this great adventure with KINT and to contribute to the building of an innovative and ambitious vision for Situation Management!