The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age Audiobook (Free)

Introducing the new,realistic loyalty pact between employer and employee.

The employer-employee relationship is broken, andmanagers face a seemingly impossible problem: the old model of guaranteedlong-term employment no longer works within a business environment defined bycontinuous change, but neither does a system in which every employee acts likea free agent.

The solution? Stop thinking of employees as eitherfamily or free of charge agents. Think of them rather as allies.

As a supervisor you want your about The Alliance: Managing Skill in the Networked Age employees to helptransform the business for future years. And your workers want the company to helptransform their careers. But this win-win situation will onlyhappen if both sides trust each other enough to invest in mutual investment andmutual benefit. Unfortunately, trust in the business world is normally hovering at an all-timelow.

We are able to rebuild that shed trust with right talkthat recognizes the realities of the present day economy. Therefore paradoxically, thealliance begins with managers acknowledging that great workers might leavethe firm, and with workers being honest about their personal careeraspirations.

By getting this fresh alliance in the centre of yourtalent-management strategy, you’ll not just bring back trust, you’ll be capable torecruit and retain the entrepreneurial people you will need to adjust to afast-changing world.

These individuals-flexible, creative, and with abias toward action-thrive when they’re on a particular “tour of duty,” when theyhave a mission that’s mutually good for worker and company that may becompleted in a realistic period of time.

Coauthored by the founder of LinkedIn, this bold butpractical guide for managers and executives will provide you with the tools you need torecruit, take care of, and retain the kind of employees who will make your companythrive nowadays of constant innovation and fast-paced change.