The document proposes a new "tour of duty" model for the employer-employee relationship to address the fundamental disconnect between companies expecting loyalty without job security or career development, and employees who leave for better opportunities. It suggests structuring employment as an alliance with explicit terms where employer and employee add value to each other through finite-term "tours of duty" focused on accomplishing specific missions, in exchange for career benefits. This model is argued to rebuild trust and encourage employees to build long-term careers through a series of meaningful missions.
78. Provide a structure for
an employee to take on
a series of personally
MEANINGFUL MISSIONS.
79. Tours of duty encourage your employees to
build A LONG-TERM CAREER at your company.
80. • Should an employee talk to me about
other job offers he’s receiving?
• What’s the only way you can retain
an entrepreneurial employee?
• How do I align an employee’s values and
career aspirations with the company’s?
• Should all employees be welcome
to the firm alumni network?
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An argument that
we need a new way
of doing business.
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