LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman shares his best management advice

LinkedIn founder and chairman Reid Hoffman commended Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's "bold" leadership style in a 2014 interview with Motley Fool, and soon the two will be working closely together.

Their companies announced Monday that Microsoft will be acquiring LinkedIn for $26.2 billion by the end of the calendar year.

Hoffman is known as one of the wisest minds in Silicon Valley, and in his 2014 book "The Alliance" he rethinks the relationship between managers and employees.

In it, Hoffman and entrepreneurs Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh explain how employers can attract and retain the best employees through the formation of alliances where everyone wins.

The authors sent Business Insider a presentation outlining their book's main principles, which we've included below.