The Revolution of Work
Fuck The Patriarchy And The Workplace It Built
About The Book
Anessa Fike is tired of seeing the same broken elements in the workplace happening over and over again in a structure set up centuries ago to help only the patriarchy succeed. The Revolution of Work calls attention to how work isn't working for most people today and how it's all connected back to holding up the status quo for the success of one demographic but to the detriment of most others. With her own lived experiences of working with more than 100 organizations around the world sprinkled in, reading this book will make you feel at once like you are out with friends discussing the ways of work and wanting to band together to change work for the better. Fike's writing makes it feel like you are in a deep and meaningful discussion, and it also makes you want to dive in to do something about making the workplace better. This book is the start of a revolution - THE Revolution - to make workplaces and work better for all humans.
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“The very phrase "future of work" conjures up academics and Wall Street pundits jousting with charts and data focused on macro trends into the next decade. It's a term that suggests something too big to be seen or too ephemeral to be felt by people who doing the actual working. That's why this book was revelatory. It isn't some set of big ideas designed to be a future cover story on Fast Company. It is the future of work as seen by people making that future happen. It is a hands-dirty, front-lines POV of all the ways you'll find work to be broken, and a personal challenge for you (yes, you) to make it better. This is a worthwhile read for leaders, HR professionals, managers, and anyone who cares about how we spend so much of our waking lives.”
— James Ellis, Chief Brander, Employer Brand Labs, www.employerbrandlabs.com
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“When I ask my son, who is a part of Generation Alpha, what a boss or a CEO looks like, he tells me, ‘You, Mama. You’re a boss.’” Anessa Fike's The Revolution of Work: Fuck the Patriarchy and the Workplace It Built reads like a chat over drinks with your friends - one who happens to be Anessa. She fearlessly dishes out critiques and liberally drops expletives because sometimes you have to say what you have to say. The book reads as if she's casually sharing experiences involving oppressive workplace norms, their impact, and why they’ve been tolerated for far too long. Brace yourself for an unfiltered, candid dialogue as she pushes for a workplace revolution that's long overdue. In this read, she is the Boss.”
— Torin Ellis, Principal, Diversity Strategist, and Culture Creator, The Torin Ellis Brand, torinellis.com
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“The “future of work” was yesterday, and it failed employees and workplace cultures alike. It’s now time for a “Revolution of work” that pushes us to upend everything we think we know about Workplaces and Business. Many of the processes People professionals follow haven’t been intentionally updated in decades! This book shatters those outdated practices and pushes leaders and Talent professionals to really see the inequities they’ve helped create. But more importantly, it urges them to revolutionize and intentionally build all those systems anew. Adding this book to your best practices toolkit will help you push past performative and harmful People and business practices and build more thoughtful and equitable workplaces. Whether you are a People professional, a manager, an executive, or an individual contributor, this book will help you see how the patriarchy - and its many inequitable systems, processes, and policies - affect everything we know, think, and do about work… and once you see it, you simply can’t go back.”
— Daniela (Dani) Herrera, Talent and DEI Consultant, www.deibydani.com
About The Author
Anessa Fike is a former journalist turned People, Talent, and HR Executive who has led more than 100 organizations across the world. She is CEO and Founder of Fike + Co, a boutique consulting firm that specializes in interim or Fractional People, HR, and Talent Executive Leadership with companies that are experiencing growth, scale, transition, or transformation. Anessa has become an industry leader in all things People and Talent, and she isn't afraid to push the envelope when it comes to speaking up and speaking out. Being called a true ally by many, she has also been named to the Most Inclusive HR Influencer list over many years, has been a product advisor for multiple HR Tech companies, has been a keynote and panel speaker at regional and national conferences, has been a guest on many industry podcasts, and is an IDEA Practitioner with NASA. Her mission – and the mission of Fike + Co – is to help companies build or course correct to create workplace cultures that allow ALL humans to thrive.
