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According to author, Martin Thomas, "the new world of the corporate affairs director is chaotic, complicated and largely unspinnable."  In his new book he explains "the role requires a completely new set of skills, in which an understanding of social media, behavioural psychology and influencer marketing is far more important than a bulging contacts list on your BlackBerry."

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Communicators generally tend to be late adopters. This is a shame especially at the moment as organisations are starting to look for intuitive and empathetic people to help them navigate through the evolving social and technological world. Perhaps the future for communications is less as message managers and more as change agents.

tim johns


How many corporate comms professionals will be able to truly embrace this new world? Last year's Watson Helsby research suggested an industry in denial ... unwilling to accept that changing patterns of behaviour, new expectations and new technology would actually affect them.

Martin Thomas


'Loose' has just been published this week and makes for fascinating reading. One of Martin's arguments in the book is that Corporate Affairs Directors have done such a good job over the past 20 years that far too many of their internal audiences (especially the c-suite) have bought into the idea that the world around them can be controlled, critics silenced and crises managed. Unfortunately in a world in which trust is at a premium, influence is dispersed and criticism cheap, this is no longer the case.

Dee Cayhill