Our organizations are in trouble. Beset on all sides by pressure: competitive pressure, market pressure, social pressure, and just plain pressure pressure. As we look at the people in these organizations we see them rotating in a busy, helpless dance - the Jig of Despair - desperately trying to improve the way things are done but constrained by the way things are done.

Enter a new business professional, the voice of the Third Millennium, the Corporate Fool. In this colourful and vibrant book David Firth and Alan Leigh show how The Corporate Fool can help us break out of the Jig of Despair and usher in the New Fool Order.

DAVID FIRTH is an international consultant, writer and conference speaker who works with individuals and companies intent on embracing the future. He is the author of The Experiment, Corporate Voodoo, Smart Things to Know about Change and Smart Things to Know about People.

ALAN LEIGH is a Partner at Merrill Lynch.