num_pages: 224
description: The New York Times Bestelling guide for managers and executives.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 as 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 company to help transform their careers for the long term. But this win-win scenario will happen only 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 individuals flexible creative and with a bias toward action thrive when theyre on a specific tour of dutywhen 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.
language: English
title: The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
publisher: Harvard Business Review Press