By John Wood
John wooden came upon his ardour, his maximum good fortune, and his life's work—not at enterprise institution or top Microsoft's cost into Asia within the 1990s—but on a soul-searching journey to the Himalayas. wooden felt trapped among an all-consuming occupation and a wish to do whatever lasting and important. under pressure from the calls for of his activity, he took a holiday hiking in Nepal simply because a pal had advised him, "If you get excessive sufficient within the mountains, you can't listen Steve Ballmer yelling at you anymore."
Instead of being the antidote to the rat race, that journey confident John wooden to divert the boundless power he used to be devoting to Microsoft right into a reason that desperately had to be addressed. whereas vacationing a distant Nepalese college, wooden realized that the scholars had few books of their library. while he provided to run a ebook force to supply the varsity with books, his concept was once met with well mannered skepticism. finally, irrespective of how well-intentioned, why may a profitable software program government take worthwhile trip of his lifestyles and assemble books for an impoverished school?
But John wooden did go back to that faculty and with hundreds of thousands of books bundled at the again of a yak. And at that second, wooden made the choice to stroll clear of Microsoft and create Room to Read—an association that has donated greater than 1.2 million books, proven greater than 2,600 libraries and two hundred faculties, and despatched 1,700 ladies to varsity on scholarship—ultimately touching the lives of 875,000 youngsters with the lifelong reward of education.
Leaving Microsoft to alter the World chronicles John Wood's fight to discover a significant outlet for his managerial abilities and entrepreneurial zeal. for each high-achiever who has ever puzzled what existence can be like giving again, wooden bargains a shiny, emotional, and soaking up story of the way to take the teachings discovered at a hard-charging corporation like Microsoft and observe them to 1 of the world's so much urgent difficulties: the inability of easy literacy.
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