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.

As
a manager you want your employees to help transform the company for the
future. And your employees want the company to help transform their
careers for the long term. But this win-win scenario will happen only if
both sides trust each other enough to commit to mutual investment and
mutual benefit. Sadly, trust in the business world is hovering at an
all-time low.

We can rebuild that lost trust with straight talk
that recognizes the realities of the modern economy. So, paradoxically,
the alliance begins with managers acknowledging that great employees
might leave the company, and with employees being honest about their own
career aspirations.

By putting this new alliance at the heart of
your talent management strategy, you’ll not only bring back trust,
you’ll be able to recruit and retain the entrepreneurial individuals you
need to adapt to a fast-changing world.

These individuals,
flexible, creative, and with a bias toward action, thrive when they’re
on a specific “tour of duty”—when they have a mission that’s mutually
beneficial to employee and company that can be completed in a realistic
period of time.

Coauthored by the founder of LinkedIn, this bold
but practical guide for managers and executives will give you the tools
you need to recruit, manage, and retain the kind of employees who will
make your company thrive in today’s world of constant innovation and
fast-paced change.