Ideea unui serial despre entuziasm în industria comunicării s-a născut din dorinţa de a desluşi legătura care există între progresul acestei industrii şi optimismul comunicatorilor.
Agenţii schimbării — o specie rară — sau game changers, cum îi numeşte Aneta Bogdan, sunt optimiştii, „profesionişti pentru care speranţa înseamnă a descoperi noi perspective, a încerca lucruri noi, a profita de noi oportunităţi, şi nu a se lăsa impresionaţi de problemele unei industrii care îşi caută debusolată un nou purpose”. Invitaţii mei nu vor livra reţete de optimism, ne propunem mai degrabă un mic răgaz de reflecţie, o „aerisire” din registrul actualităţii şi un efort de recuperare a unor repere esenţiale pentru profesie şi viaţă deopotrivă. Îi mulţumesc Anetei pentru acestă contribuţie!
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He always seemed to know the future, and was happy to share it with everybody. But, unlike the prophets of old, he didn’t speak in riddles, but in plain English. So plain that some people told me after his first conference in Bucharest in 2003: “What’s the big fuss about Wally? All that he said, wealready knew.” Sweet innocence! — only two hours of Wally were enough to sweep away their previous confusion and ignorance, just like an injection with branding truth serum. His congenial approach encouraged even his most unconditional admirers to take his greatness for granted: “he will always be here, we can always ask Wally about it”. Sadly, not anymore. But we still have his books, over which he confessed going through twenty times, back and forth, before publishing: “the first draft was twice as thick, and finally it got thinner”. In the process he also avoided the occult, esoteric jargon so exhausted by the lesser gifted in the industry.