Issue #506 December 2010

About the Interim Association

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Chuck Gumbert

A dynamic, driven, and visionary leader, Chuck Gumbert, the Founder and CEO of The Tomcat Group, has acquired over 30 years of Aerospace business, sales and operational experience with demonstrated achievements in leading successful operational and financial turnarounds and accelerated business performance in the manufacturing and MRO aftermarket segments.
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Too Big to Fail
Join us for the webinar on 1/27 that addresses the topic of Too Big to Fail.
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After more than 30 years of massive global expansion America has reached what appears to be a fork in the road. If we step back from the “growth at all cost” race for just a moment, and look in the rearview mirror on lessons gained there are some important dynamics that beg consideration as we continue forward. The rapid pace in which the world is becoming one international economy can have some chilling effects in a down cycle or significant event anywhere in the chain of nations. The point is made clear as we look at the current economic crisis in the once infallible American economy that has subsequently sent shock waves around the world. Equally notable is the crisis caused by political unrest in Greece on the stability of the European economy demonstrating the power of just one weak link in the global chain.

Women and the Interim Management Field

The Monthly Labor Review published an article penned by Marisa DiNatale and Stephanie Borass seven years ago revealing the marked workplace differences of ‘Gen X’ women ages 25-34 to their counterparts 25 years earlier, and to males in the current workforce. Many of these changes continue to accelerate, positively altering the diversity of the labor force. Although these changes have been many years in the making, the current recession has become the catalyst for further advancement of these dynamics. All of which seems to suggest an important trend in the career paths of women in the coming years.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted a study of ‘Generation X’ women in the business world over the past 25 years and outlined a number of important indicators of change.

Increased Workforce: A little more than half of American women age 25-34 participated in the workforce in 1975; twenty five years later about three-quarters of women were in the workplace. At the time of the study, unemployment rates for women were little different from that of men, and the gap has remained narrow since.