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Power Essays 2020: The paranoid public relations survivors, by ASDA’A BCW’s Sunil John

by founder of ASDA’A BCW and President – Middle East of BCW, Sunil John.

In July, with the benefit of insights gained at the helm of our agency after four months of the pandemic, I urged communicators to adopt a healthy paranoia. To tear up and reinvent our playbooks to take account of a series of seismic shifts.

Today, as I survey the emerging landscape, I believe that our paranoia has served us well, compared with other marketing disciplines, as we deftly navigated through economic and social uncertainty. Several firms have been forced to take harsh measures. We have all battened down and drawn in our sails. Many are riding out the storm, bucked by budgets cuts and cancelled projects.

However stormy the outlook, many agencies have nonethe


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