The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

author: Reid Hoffman
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2015/04/22
date added: 2015/04/22
shelves: non-fiction-business
review:
'The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age' by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh is a fresh look at what it looks like to be employed in the 21st century, where there is no guaranteed employment and employees want to act like free agents. What is a company to do?

The book creates a framework for employment in this age by looking at how some companies are doing this, primarily, LinkedIn. Discussed are tours of duty, where an employee and company decide on frameworks that hopefully lead to longer term alliances. Companies are to encourage employees to mine their social networks for the companies behalf. The book finishes by talking about those employees who do move on and how the company could include them in an alumni network.

It's an interesting, collaborative approach to an employee/employer relationship. I think these ideas would probably work better for larger organizations, but I'll still probably recommend it to my companies' HR department. This was an interesting book and I'm glad I got a chance to read it.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Harvard Business Review Press and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to read such a fascinating ebook.


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