Reid Hoffman – "The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age"

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 as free agents. Think of them instead as allies.