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The Alliance
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The Alliance

by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
3h 6m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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THE ALLIANCE
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Transformational tour of duty. When Smith fi rst
joined as the general manager of the Intuit Developer
Network, both he and the company wanted to assess
their long- term t. Neither side assumed that Smith
would one day become the CEO of the company.
But during the course of that Transformational tour,
and the two tours that followed, Smith and Intuit
kept strengthening their relationship to the point
that in 2008, he agreed to embark on a Foundational
tour— this time as president and CEO. Anyone can
see that Smith is on a Foundational tour just from
his LinkedIn profi le URL: www.linkedin.com/in/
bradsmithintuit.
Blending Tours of Duty
We summarize the tour of duty framework with
t a b l e 2 - 1 .
There isn’t on ...
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