There will come a time when your brightest, most beloved employee will want to leave. Reid Hoffman says you should let her go—or at least, in many instances. On July 8, the king of social networks himself, who founded LinkedIn and was an early investor in Facebook, will publish a radical book of advice for managers called The Alliance, and it’s worth a read. A follow-up to his 2011 blockbuster The Start-Up of You, this instructional manual makes a strong case that managers should rethink the very essence of the relationships they strike with employees. Along with co-writers Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh, Hoffman argues that no one goes to work for one company forever anymore, and that managers shouldn’t pretend they do. Instead, employees and employers should agree upon short increments of work to accomplish together much like a military tour of duty. Once the work is complete, they should meet to reevaluate what happens next. I recently sat down with Hoffman, who joined the prominent Silicon Valley VC firm Greylock Partners in 2009, to discuss how his ideas translate into practice. Below, our conversation (edited for clarity):
总有一天,你最聪明、最喜爱的员工想离开公司。而对此雷德o霍夫曼说,你应该让他们走——或者说,至少在大部分情况下,你都应该放他们走。雷德o霍夫曼本身是社交网络之王,他创办了社交网络LinkedIn,同时还是社交服务网站Facebook的早期投资人。今年7月8日,霍夫曼将出版一本新书,为管理者提供建议。新书名为《同盟》(The Alliance),里面的观点十分激进,值得一读。2011年霍夫曼出版的《至关重要的关系》(The Start-Up of You)一书取得了极大成功,而《同盟》则是这本书的后续。作为一本指导手册,它给了管理者充分的理由,让他们重新思考管理者与员工关系的实质。霍夫曼与另两名联合作者本 o 卡斯诺瓦和克里斯o叶一起提出了一个事实:现在已经没有人会在一家公司一直干到底了,管理者们应该承认现实。与此相反,员工与雇主应该达成协议,将共同努力推进工作看作是在军队完成一次服役。一旦服役期结束,他们就该坐下来重新讨论之后的安排。2009年,霍夫曼加入了一家卓越的硅谷风险投资公司Greylock。最近我得以与他会面,讨论应该如何将他的想法付诸实践。下面是我们的谈话内容(为清晰起见,谈话内容经过编辑):
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