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050	1	4	_aLC 5148 _bW876le 2006
082	0	0	_a370.917340954
100	1		_aWood, John, _d1964- _945661
245	1	0	_aLeaving Microsoft to change the world : _ban entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children / _cJohn Wood.
260			_aNew York : _bHarperCollins, _c2006
300			_avi, 278 pages, [16] pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aDiscovering Nepal; leaving Microsoft -- "Perhaps, Sir, you will someday come back with books" -- An idea burns by candlelight -- You need to get home soon! -- Woody and john's excellent adventure -- Debating a radical change -- Lonely in a city of 12 million strangers -- Gates in China -- Walking away -- Starting over -- The start-up years: an object in motion remains in motion -- Making the ask - Expansion beyond Nepal -- A postcard from Nepal -- What every entrepreneur needs: a strong second-in-command -- September 11 -- Building "the Microsoft of nonprofits" -- Building the network -- You life is a mess -- Hitting our stride -- Putting girls in the place-school! -- "Count me in Don" -- The students of Cambodia - The network goes into overdrive -- Democracy in action in India -- The Tsunami -- The millionth book -- The next chapter of my adult life.
520			_a"He 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."--BOOK JACKET.
600	1	0	_aWood, John, _d1964 January 29-
600	1	4	_aWood, John, _d1964- _945661
610	2	0	_aRoom to Read (Organization) _945665
650		0	_aEducation, Rural _zSouth Asia _vCase studies.
650		0	_aEducation, Rural _zSoutheast Asia _vCase studies.
650		4	_aEducación rural _zAsia meridional _vEstudios de caso _945668
650		4	_aEducación rural _zSudeste asiático _vEstudios de caso _945668
655		7	_aCase studies. _2lcgft _0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2017026140
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0705/2006041601.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2006041601-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2006041601-d.html
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