Not Buying the Premise...

What disappointed you about The Alliance?

To hear these guys tell it, every worker in America is inches from suicide. They set up a completely false premise, and "innovate" a solution that anybody who's managed workforces outside northern california already understands. They have to use 40-year old examples to make their point, and even those are cartoons. This is still the most productive, innovative workforce in history, and "tours of duty" have been an integral part of it for a very long time.

Would you ever listen to anything by the authors again?

Unlikely

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Nothing here is completely untrue -- it's just exaggerated, inaccurate, and well-trodden

5 persone l'hanno trovata utile

If you're starting a company...

If you're starting a company or looking to establish a new process for recruiting, or just setting employee expectations, then this is the book for you. The future of work is being defined by economic forces beyond policy or politics. As a company, you can either fight it or put processes in place to work with these forces and take advantage of them. The smartest companies will adopt many of Reid's recommendations and quickly get ahead of I'm competitors. Reid is very good at taking the best existing ideas and molding them with new creative thinking. I enjoyed listening to this book, but I also bought a hard copy so I could quickly reference sections in real time.

3 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Save your money for other books. Not this one.

I'm disappointed about the book.you can tell there weren't much Reid Hoffman input in this "book".
I am constantly confused about the idea of the book.
It trying to push the company to be more open to its workers of their networking situation. And still not strong enough to proof it's idea after all. Only left confusion to some.
It's more a PR for LinkedIn.

3 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Quick read. Great insights.

Lots of real world examples of success and failures in talent strategies. Tour of Duty programs are an interesting way to grow skills and exposure for highly ambitious employees.

1 persona l'ha trovata utile

Quick Listen w/ a caveat

Overall good quick read, but would have preferred if the reader had explained the diagrams and tables as they came up in text rather than all at the end.

1 persona l'ha trovata utile

Highlights a clear path to a resource many of us underutilize

Solid logical approach to ensuring the employee-employer relationship is truly a 2 way street.

A new framework for the modern business

The authors explain that business is not necessarily a family, but a team. Think sports at the highest level, pushing each other to grow and remain flexible. The employer/employee relationship has changed in our modern era. This book describes how and why and what to do for the future.

A good quick read.. some statements stand out.

All in all a good read.. some good basic insights.. uncommon traits and unexplored ideas..

A must read for every CEO, HR Professional, manager... and employee

Rarely to I go and buy 3 copies of the same book whilst being still half way through the book. With The Alliance - this is exactly what I did and I won’t stop at that. I’ll gift a copy to many more ;) Highly recommend!

Roman
CEO, Splento

Great views on modern talent management

Many good and brave views. Lot of valid points worth considering. Only thing I would point is there's quite strong connection with LinkedIn, which might put some stuff in biased way.