Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children

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This Hardcover Book item from Collins was reviewed on 12-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by Collins. As another reviewer said, this is one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. If you are in a job that is not that fulfilling, but you´re afraid of making the leap, Wood´s journey from Microsoft to the non-profit sector will be educational. If you are happy with your job, but just want to make your job inspiring, Wood´s lessons from Microsoft that he applied to Room To Read will show you ways to do that, too. Thank you, John, for writing such a heartfelt memoir of your emotional journey.¤

2) Hardcover Book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by Collins. This book is a must have, I have recommended to all my friends and family. Kudos to the Author for publishing such a wonderful book.¤

3) Hardcover Book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by Collins. Namaste John. Kasto Cha??

You have made all Nepalese indebted with your incomparable deeds. You are true hero in our hearts. Yes, we salute you from the core of our heart.

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4) Hardcover Book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by Collins. This is one of the best books I have ever read. John Wood does what all of us dreamers out there imagine we could do: quits his excellent job at Microsoft to do his part in saving the world. Wood´s style of writing is so smooth and easy to read, he never bores you. If you´re at all familiar with the inside workings of the Microsoft company (my boyfriend interned there, so I am), you´ll get a good laugh here and there when he talks about someone like Steve Ballmer and some other inside jokes. I highly recommend you read this book if you have any interests at all in poverty alleviation and humanitarian aid.¤

5) Hardcover Book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by Collins. There aren´t too many people who can mock Steve Ballmer, and Bill Gates. John Wood certainly did that with humour and fairness. Besides gaining insights on life at Microsoft´s top tier and life in China as an expat, you will gain the most important perspective ever. That is life as a child in a less fortunate country.

This is a gripping book about a Social Entrepreneur and his work. Share in Wood´s experiences, triumphs and setbacks as you read through chapters worth its weight in gold. At the end, I took to heart his message. And that is testament to the content and writing.

Thank you John for your work, and your work at RoomToRead.org.
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6) Hardcover Book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by Collins.

John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life´s work—not at business school or leading Microsoft´s charge into Asia in the 1990s—but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had told him, "If you get high enough in the mountains, you can´t hear Steve Ballmer yelling at you anymore."

Instead of being the antidote to the rat race, that trip convinced John Wood to divert the boundless energy he was devoting to Microsoft into a cause that desperately needed to be addressed. While visiting a remote Nepalese school, Wood learned that the students had few books in their library. When he offered to run a book drive to provide the school with books, his idea was met with polite skepticism. After all, no matter how well-intentioned, why would a successful software executive take valuable time out of his life and gather books for an impoverished school?

But John Wood did return to that school and with thousands of books bundled on the back of a yak. And at that moment, Wood made the decision to walk away from Microsoft and create Room to Read—an organization that has donated more than 1.2 million books, established more than 2,600 libraries and 200 schools, and sent 1,700 girls to school on scholarship—ultimately touching the lives of 875,000 children with the lifelong gift of education.

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World chronicles John Wood´s struggle to find a meaningful outlet for his managerial talents and entrepreneurial zeal. For every high-achiever who has ever wondered what life might be like giving back, Wood offers a vivid, emotional, and absorbing tale of how to take the lessons learned at a hard-charging company like Microsoft and apply them to one of the world´s most pressing problems: the lack of basic literacy.

7) Hardcover Book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by Collins. John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life´s work--not at business school or leading Microsoft´s charge into Asia in the 1990s--but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had told him, "If you get high enough in the mountains, you can´t hear Steve Ballmer yelling at you anymore."

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Instead of being the antidote to the rat race, that trip convinced John Wood to divert the boundless energy he was devoting to Microsoft into a cause that desperately needed to be addressed. While visiting a remote Nepalese school, Wood learned that the students had few books in their library. When he offered to run a book drive to provide the school with books, his idea was met with polite skepticism. After all, no matter how well-intentioned, why would a successful software executive take valuable time out of his life and gather books for an impoverished school?

But John Wood did return to that school and with thousands of books bundled on the back of a yak. And at that moment, Wood made the decision to walk away from Microsoft and create Room to Read-an organization that has donated more than 1.2 million books, established more than 2,600 libraries and 200 schools, and sent 1,700 girls to school on scholarship-ultimately touching the lives of 875,000 children with the lifelong gift of education.

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World chronicles John Wood´s struggle to find a meaningful outlet for his managerial talents and entrepreneurial zeal. For every high-achiever who has ever wondered what life might be like giving back, Wood offers a vivid, emotional, and absorbing tale of how to take the lessons learned at a hard-charging company like Microsoft and apply them to one of the world´s most pressing problems: the lack of basic literacy.¤

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