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Tours of Duty
process structured and explicit, rather than vague
and implied.
The central promise of a Transformational tour is
that the employee will have the opportunity to trans-
form both his career and the company. His LinkedIn
profi le (or résumé) should look considerably more
impressive afterward! As a Transformational tour of
duty enters its fi nal stage, you and your employee can
start to negotiate a follow- up tour of duty to keep the
employee at the company. Because a Transformational
tour represents a more intense forward- looking com-
mitment than a Rotational tour, the default expec-
tation is that both parties want to invest in the long
term, and that there will likely be a follow- up tour.
A general rule of thumb is tha ...