The Alliance: Managing Talent In The Networked Age (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
The "tour of duty" model for the new employer-employee dynamic is a fantastic, five-star idea, but it alone doesn't make for a whole book. The dimensions of the book itself are small, the typeface gigantic, the margins enormous, and somehow there are still three authors on it. If it were printed like a regular book, it might be 100 pages. My sense is this was printed so it could be talked about in legacy media outlets and handed out at conferences. The central idea is a 5 and the execution a 1, so my rating lands at 3. I'm not the intended audience, but this was still a useful book. ("The Start-up of You" would be a better fit for non-managers, I think.)Think of your career as a series of "tours of duty," and look for employers who think likewise.The modern job is a simple contract: the employee pledges to contribute to the value of some product, and the employer pledges to contribute to the human capital of the employer as best as possible. An alliance.
What do You think about The Alliance: Managing Talent In The Networked Age (2014)?
Interesting read. Not sure how practical it is on most situations.
—Gered
An excellent idea that could have been summarized more succinctly.
—Kelly291196
Hopefully destined to become a seminal work.
—ninaboa30
