Rule Breaker

Rebellious Leadership for the Future of Work

Jackie Fast

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781789667677
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789667684
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

When the winners of today can be dethroned by a surprise new entrant tomorrow, how do you ensure you stay on top? The world has changed, and the leaders of the future are those who embrace disruption and make their own rules.

Rule Breaker is a manifesto for a new wave of leadership. One that operates in flatter workplaces where command and control doesn't work, and where people are entrusted with powerful purpose that grows businesses and communities. Award-winning entrepreneur, Jackie Fast, details how we have got here and why a whole new generation of workers is moving away from traditional models of work. Rule Breaker shows you how businesses like Kylie Cosmetics, M.92 and Beats can tap into a purposeful and engaged community of talent, harnessing true diversity and collaboration.

To remain a highly successful leader in a future of radical change, you need to do more than fly the flag at the top of the podium supported by those beneath you. You must join the frontline and pave the way. Throw away the rule book, encourage rebelliousness, ask questions and lead by example.

Acknowledgements

We are living in crazy times. I am amazed at how much change is happening and although the themes of this book have been percolating in my brain for many years, I believe it has all come to a tipping point. For that, I am grateful to be able to write this book at such a pivotal moment in history.

I have been inspired by all the leaders who are not afraid to make change, not afraid to speak their minds. All the rebels who will not accept old rules and the mavericks who are redefining limitations. This book is for all of you.

I am also extremely grateful to everyone who contributed their time with interviews, feedback, discussions and inspiration: Mark Mylam, Maryam and Amina Mamilova, Bill Tai, Cory Johnson, Fahad Saud, Matthew d’Ancona, Rebecca Jolly, Elty Dudley-Williams, Cory Johnson, James Watt, Jamie Dey and Katie Cavanagh.

A big thank you to fellow rule breaker and my commissioning editor Géraldine Collard who made this all happen. This book would never have been written if you had not reached out.

Thanks especially to both sets of Hendrix’s grandparents: Shirley and Herman Fast and Sue and Roy Huston, without whose babysitting hours the completion of this book would not have been possible.

And finally, a big thank you to my husband Chris who not only inspired the best chapter in this book but continues to inspire me each and every day.

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Chapter 1

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Chapter 2

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Table of contents

• Praise for Rule Breaker
• Rule Breaker
• Contents
• List of Figures
• NT Introduction
• The Past
• 01 Business unusual
• 02 I built it in my bedroom
• 03 ‘Move fast and break things’ is broken
• The Present
• 04 Replacing the C-suite
• 05 Earning the right to lead
• 06 Complacency is not an option
• The future
• 07 The future is collaborative
• 08 The future is here
• Acknowledgements
• Index