Strategic Communication, 3rd Edition

A reflection

DOI: 10.4324/9781003317579-15

So, we’ve done it—completed a journey exploring strategic communication and attempted to write a plan for the case your selected right at the start of the book. Now is the time to reflect on what it all means.

To start that reflection, let’s think about the plots of John Le Carré’s spy novels. They are rarely simple. To understand what his principal character, the clever and cerebral spymaster George Smiley, is doing and experiencing as the stories weave through plot and sub-plot takes concentration, almost at the level Smiley himself applies. Smiley is, of course, trying to unravel and explain mysterious, sometimes traitorous, situations. Unlike his opponents, he does it mostly without force, but ...