You turn the flywheel once and it keeps spinning on its own. - Reid Hoffman

If you want to find out how resourceful you can be, shrink your budget. Move your deadlines up. See how you cope. This may make you more resilient to actual hardships that inevitably arise.

Instead, you need to learn as you go, solving more and more complex problems. And with luck, learning the answers to your questions just in time.

In the context of the alliance, the tour of duty represents an ethical commitment by employer and employee to a specific mission. We see this approach as a way to incorporate some of the advantages from both lifetime employment and free agency.