The Alliance, Reid Hoffman Ben Casnocha Chris Yeh
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The Alliance
Managing Talent in the Networked Age

Unabridged: 3 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2014

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Introducing the new, realistic loyalty pact between employer and employee. The employer-employee relationship is broken, and managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: the old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment defined by continuous change, but neither does a system in which every employee acts like a free agent. The solution? Stop thinking of employees as either family or free agents. Think of them instead as allies. As a manager you want your employees to help transform the company for the future. And your employees want the firm to help transform their careers. But this win-win scenario will only happen if both sides trust each other enough to commit to mutual investment and mutual benefit. Sadly, trust in the business world is hovering at an all-time low. We can rebuild that lost trust with straight talk that recognizes the realities of the modern economy. So paradoxically, the alliance begins with managers acknowledging that great employees might leave the company, and with employees being honest about their own career aspirations. By putting this new alliance at the heart of your talent-management strategy, youll not only bring back trust, youll be able to recruit and retain the entrepreneurial individuals you need to adapt to a fast-changing world. These individualsflexible, creative, and with a bias toward actionthrive when theyre on a specific tour of duty, when they have a mission thats mutually beneficial to employee and company that can be completed in a realistic period of time. Coauthored by the founder of LinkedIn, this bold but practical guide for managers and executives will give you the tools you need to recruit, manage, and retain the kind of employees who will make your company thrive in todays world of constant innovation and fast-paced change.

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