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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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Appendix B
Mission Alignment
Exercise: People
We Admire
In our discussion on alignment, we wrote about the
importance of understanding the values of your em-
ployees, and the technique of asking someone who
they admire and why. Here’s how each of us completed
the exercise— three people we admire, the three traits
about each that we most admire, and a rough ordering
of how strongly we cherish the traits overall.
Reid
1. Martin Luther King Jr.
A great hero whose vision and courage remains an inspiration for all
Americans and indeed the world
Vision
Courage
Compassion
(continued)
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Appendix B
2. Marie Curie
A hero ...
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