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

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

The solution? Quit thinking of workers as eitherfamily or free agents. Think of them instead as allies.

As a supervisor you want your about The Alliance: Managing Skill in the Networked Age workers to helptransform the company for the future. And your employees want the company to helptransform their careers. But this win-win scenario will onlyhappen if both edges trust one another enough to invest in mutual expenditure andmutual benefit. Sadly, trust in the business enterprise world is definitely hovering at an all-timelow.

We can 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 business, and with employees being honest about their very own careeraspirations.

By positioning this brand-new alliance in the centre of yourtalent-management technique, you’ll not only recreate trust, you’ll be able torecruit and retain the entrepreneurial individuals you will need to adjust to afast-changing world.

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

Coauthored with the founder of LinkedIn, this bold butpractical direct for managers and executives will provide you with the tools you will need torecruit, take care of, and wthhold the sort of employees who’ll make your companythrive nowadays of constant innovation and fast-paced modify.