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

5 Ratings: 3.0

A book by John Wood

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Tags: Books, Children, Reading, Microsoft, Charities

Author: John Wood

Genre: Nonprofit Organizations & Charities, Motivational, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Enterpeneurship, Literacy, see all

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review by biblio_mutant. June 21, 2010

Bookworms Unite

John Wood was a corporate warrior who caught the rising tide that was Microsoft in the 1990s. By the time he was in his early 30s, he was jetsetting between Beijing, Seattle and Sydney in Microsoft's solemn quest to plant their digital flag on every continent. Then he went to Nepal for a vacation. He saw school 'libraries' which consisted of backpacker castoffs kept under lock and key. As a lifelong bookworm, he was horrified. So he had an slow-motion epiphany, … more

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Quick Tip by Bethany_K. June 21, 2010

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Inspiring book that documents the creation and concept behind the charity Room to Read and a life change for the founder John Wood. Definitely worth reading!

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