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Friday Happy Hour Photo: Summer Reading, South of the Equator

07.21.2023 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

The great oral communication expert Tim Pollard (who is teaching an important course for us this September, Message Architecture for Executive Communication) took my book on an adventure to Machu Picchu earlier this month. I asked him to pose there with the book, to which he responded quite reasonably, “I’m not hauling a book up a ******* six-hour mountain hike just for a photo shoot.”

But then he sent this, with the note, “Hope the Amazon rainforest is a good second.”

Indeed.

After the overwhelming avalanche of attention you and your book get in the first months after publication, the less frequent notes you get over the next years mean more.

And I’m still getting some really nice ones. Said Pollard, “What a great book: probably the best I’ve ever read on communication. Should be required reading for anyone who aspires to be a decent human being.”

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