The Alliance - Managing Talent in the Networked Age (MP3 format, CD)

"Redefining workplace loyalty for a more networked age"

As individual workers become more entrepreneurial managing their own careers, jumping from job to job, and assembling their own distinctive professional narratives the burden is now on managers to keep an organization running. "The Alliance" addresses this very real challenge for both companies and their people.

Written by an impressive trio of thinkers and doers LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, author and entrepreneur Ben Casnocha, and executive and investor Chris Yeh the book offers the first concrete advice on generating value for employees and companies in today s networked world. Building on their 2013 article in the "Harvard Business Review," Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact, the authors propose a new framework that unearths opportunities for all parties involved in the pact, reflecting an optimistic view of future employee-employer relations.

The framework or new talent alliance relies on a modern system of loyalty between companies and employees. No longer one based on lifetime employment, this updated approach takes into account today s volatile economic realities and moves from a transactional to a relational approach between parties. The pact nets benefits for each: the employee makes the company more valuable through his work, and in turn the firm invests back into that employee s growth and, therefore, his overall employability.

This mutually beneficial deal constitutes the new loyalty pact based on trust and investment something employers, managers, and employees can agree on."