Just famous enough not to be noticed

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FAMOUS ENOUGH JUST FAMOUS ENOUGH NOT TO BE NOTICED | Michael Donovan Just Not to be Michael Donovan FAMOUS ENOUGH NOTICED NOTICED An amazing personal adventure from a subur- ban childhood in Australia; to deal-making in Hollywood; organising world-class arts events; intrigue at the Vatican; a UNESCO start-up; roles as an international tourism CEO and rec- ognition and demand as a leading educator, lecturer and executive business mentor by top corporate executives. Donovan’s memoir is an engrossing ricochet of interests and achievements which puts paid to the theory of career-planning. Extracted from over twenty-two thousand pages of personal business diary entries and recollections of childhood, this book bursts with detail, names and contemporaneous personal observations. We get to look at the machinations of govern- ment, corporate dealings and previously un- disclosed insights into many notable people. How the book details happenings across the years is itself a journey of achievements and failures, but to have the person at the centre of events tell his story is absolutely insightful.

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Page 1: Just famous enough not to be noticed

Famous Enough

Just Fa

mou

s Enough

not to bE noticEd

| michael d

onovan

JustNot to be

Michael Donovan

Famous EnoughnoticEdnoticEd

An amazing personal adventure from a subur-ban childhood in Australia; to deal-making in Hollywood; organising world-class arts events; intrigue at the Vatican; a UNESCO start-up; roles as an international tourism CEO and rec-ognition and demand as a leading educator, lecturer and executive business mentor by top corporate executives.

Donovan’s memoir is an engrossing ricochet of interests and achievements which puts paid to the theory of career-planning. Extracted from over twenty-two thousand pages of personal business diary entries and recollections of childhood, this book bursts with detail, names and contemporaneous personal observations. We get to look at the machinations of govern-ment, corporate dealings and previously un-disclosed insights into many notable people.

How the book details happenings across the years is itself a journey of achievements and failures, but to have the person at the centre of events tell his story is absolutely insightful.

Page 2: Just famous enough not to be noticed

Just Fa

mou

s Enough

not to bE noticEd

| michael d

onovan

Michael Donovan

Famous EnoughJust

NoticedFamous Enough

NoticedNot to be

An amazing personal adventure from a subur-ban childhood in Australia; to deal-making in Hollywood; organising world-class arts events; intrigue at the Vatican; a UNESCO start-up; roles as an international tourism CEO and recogni-tion and demand as a leading educator, lecturer and executive business mentor by top corpo-rate executives.

Donovan’s memoir is an engrossing ricochet of interests and achievements which puts paid to the theory of career-planning. Extracted from over twenty-two thousand pages of person-al business diary entries and recollections of childhood, this book bursts with detail, names and contemporaneous personal observations. We get to look at the machinations of govern-ment, corporate dealings and previously undis-closed insights into many notable people.

How the book details happenings across the years is itself a journey of achievements and failures, but to have the person at the centre of events tell his story is absolutely insightful.