THE ALLIANCE
MANAGING TALENT IN THE NETWORKED AGE
by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh, Miguel Marqués Muñoz · first published 2014
80% recommend20% neutral
Why HN recommends it
Reframes employment as a mutual, long-term relationship between company and employee, offering practical ideas for managing talent. Well suited to managers and anyone rethinking how they treat their team.
Summarised by Claude from recommending comments
"Introducing the new, realistic loyalty pact between employer and employee The employer-employee relationship is broken, and managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: the old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment defined by continuous change, but neither does a system in which every employee acts like a free agent. The solution? Stop thinking of employees as either family or free agents. Think of them instead as allies. As a manager you want your employees to help transform the company for the future. And your employees want the firm to help tra
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You should give "The Alliance" by Reid Hoffman a read. Excellent book - the first half, anyway - and I think it might give you a different perspective (or at least some food for thought).
on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”” ↗manager-tools.com : a series of superb podcast. Pay for the personal license; $200/year is worth it. Read "The Alliance" by Reed Hoffman. My best advice: - weekly 1:1s - accept that you will not be as knowledgeable about everything (lack of time) - establish expectations at the very beginning - start off with realizing…
on “Ask HN: What was your experience like moving from an IC to a manager role?” ↗I thought after Netflix's culture deck and Reed Hoffman's book Alliance, it would be pretty clear that a company is not a family. It could an alliance, it could be a professional sports team, or it could be some business entity, but definitely not a family. I particularly…
on “At this company, we are family” ↗…In my experience, when you help people with their long term goals, even if it's not their core job, you get a much more motivated team member. I'm a big fan of what Reid Hoffman advocates for in the Alliance; work is a two way relationship and if we treat it that way, and are honest about it, we can all benefit more.
on “Why everything breaks at 25 employees” ↗Sounds like Reid Hoffman's book "The Alliance". Good read. http://www.theallianceframework.com/
on “Conversations Managers Should Have to Develop Their People” ↗Obviously books: [!] 1) The 360° Leader, John C. Maxwell 2) Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink 3) The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age, Reid Hoffman & Ben Casnocha & Chris Yeh [!] 4) It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, Michael Abrashoff 5) Reinventing Organizations:…
on “Ask HN: Where can I find practical, no-fluff management advice?” ↗…hired someone who did exactly this - those are the kind of passionate ones you want to be working with). 3b) Candidate is a go-forward; the next step of the interview is simply a discussion about "The Alliance" (Reid Hoffman, great book, at least the first half) of what they'd like to do with their career and whether the company can harmonize that into something both parties are happy with, and a getting to…
on “When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling” ↗…hired someone who did exactly this - those are the kind of passionate ones you want to be working with). 3b) Candidate is a go-forward; the next step of the interview is simply a discussion about "The Alliance" (Reid Hoffman, great book, at least the first half) of what they'd like to do with their career and whether the company can harmonize that into something both parties are happy with, and a getting to…
on “When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling” ↗The most recent resource I've read on this was The Alliance by Reid Hoffman. In it, he postulates that both employees and employers are lying through their teeth: employers tell employees about the benefits, investment in its people, and family-feel. Employees…
on “The quitting economy” ↗…http://www.gallup.com/services/182138/state-american-manager... 3) Deloitte's latest study on Millennials -> https://getlighthouse.com/blog/deloitte-survey-millennials-2... 4) Reid Hoffman's book, The Alliance -> http://www.slideshare.net/reidhoffman/the-alliance-a-visual-... Companies don't reward managers for caring about people's development, so it won't change until companies start to.
on “Employees: looking for “the great boss who cares about their development”” ↗…good or bad, just trying to explain the underlying logic. > people started treating companies they way companies treating people and we are starting to see the results Reid Hoffman wrote a book, The Alliance, which advocates that employees and companies are not family, but for an alliance. When they both have the right goal, they work towards the goal. When they don't, they part ways. Similarly, Netflix's…
on “Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned” ↗> If you get a FAANG job you need to think like a professional athlete. S This is what Netflix has always been advocating for. Reid Hoffman also wrote the book Alliance, in which he argues that employees and employers are allies. When they are aligned, they work together. When not, they part ways. I find that these two views are realistic and we can use them to guide…
on “Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?” ↗> This is what Netflix has always been advocating for. Reid Hoffman also wrote the book The Alliance I think you might have Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn) mixed up with Reed Hastings (founder of Netflix). :)
on “Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?” ↗