Key Learnings from The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

By |2015-11-10T14:51:50-05:00August 6, 2014|Book Reviews, Employees, Managers, Sr. Leadership, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Key Learnings from The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

In The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age, the authors, three prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, propose a new employment model. Those authors are Reid Hoffman, the Executive Chairman and cofounder of LinkedIn Corporation1; Ben Casnocha, an award-winning entrepreneur as well as an author and speaker on talent management and innovation2; and Chris Yeh, an entrepreneur and avid blogger whose mission is “to help interesting people do interesting things.”3 It is their work with and as part of startup companies that led them to write the book.   The Current State The current employee-employer relationship is no longer viable. Companies [...]