“The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age” by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh
Hoffman, the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn, is rethinking the relationship between managers and employees.
In “The Alliance,” he and his co-authors argue that we’re long past the age of spending an entire career at a single company. But, they say, our workplaces haven’t adapted to the change.
They explain that by establishing an alliance between the company and its employees through “tours of duty,” tailored to what the employee wants to get from his or her time at a company, it can “invest in the long-term future without sacrificing adaptability,” much the way a dominant professional sports team operates.