Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

by John C. Maxwell

we are bombarded with thirty-five thousand messages a day.1

I’ve read that, on average, most people speak about sixteen thousand words a day.2 If you transcribed those words, they’d fill a three-hundred-page book every week.

Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.

“The number one criteria for advancement and promotion for professionals is an ability to communicate effectively.”3