The Corporate Fool: Doing the Undoable, Thinking the Unthinkable, Saying the Unsayable and Driving Your Sensible Organization Mad with Creative Folly - Softcover

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David Firth?s work touches on many aspects of organizational life - communication, ?trust-building?, creativity and learning communities. He works with companies and individuals open to change and innovation. His How to Make Work Fun! is published by Gower. Sacred Business (co-authored with Heather Campbell), a book about spirit, heart and community in business, is available from Capstone. Alan Leigh is a management consultant in New York with Fortune 500 companies. He has previously run his own theatre company and won awards as a playwright. He is also a successful sculptor.

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"A fascinating, thought–provoking and entertainingly written book – a must for anyone who wants to have a stab at upturning the corporate status quo and inspiring some creative, questioning and excitingly unconventional behaviors. This book could be dangerous for people who take themselves too seriously. " Justin Ockenden Director, Cambridge Technology Partners, New York "A bible on leadership. For, iconoclasts, renegades, and pranksters that want to impact their organization – whether they stand at the bottom or the top." Bryan Finkel Managing Director, Technology Venture Management

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The Corporate Fool 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 in the future but constrained by the way things are done now. Now, with the radical advance of technology, with open systems and transparent connectivity, with global interface and network-centricity, there is a feeling that perhaps, just perhaps, things might shift: we might break out of the dance. But this will only happen if we stimulate the dancers to change their steps - to become more open, creative and balanced themselves. This is the essential,wondrous role of a new business professional, the voice of the Third Millennium, the Corporate Fool. This colourful and vibrant book describes a role that our organizations sadly lack, and which they desperately need. The Corporate Fool reveals himself to the court in nine guises:

• Satirist, deflator, pricker of pomposity
• Alienator, representative of otherness
• Contrarian, challenger of the norms
• Jester, entertainer and joker
• Midwife, generator of creativity and problem-solving
• Mediator of meaning
• Mapper of knowledge
• Confidante of the King
• Truthseeker, teller of the difficult truths? ?and possibly a tenth.

• how these roles can be accomplished in your organization
• how you yourself can become a Fool
• how you can find and employ one
• how the Corporate Fool can help us break out of the Jig of Despair and usher in the New Fool Order.