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Bezig met laden... Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Childrendoor John Wood
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book is by the founder of Room to Read, a non-profit that supplies books & scholarships, builds libraries and schools in mostly southeast asia. It is an inspiring story of the power of the individual to change his/her course in life and to inspire others to join him in making the world a better place. There are so many lessons in this book for life and business. I HIGHLY recommend it. ( ) This is one page turner of a book! I admire the author's can-do attitude, and the change he has brought to universal education. The book is filled with success stories, so in comparison with other books on charity in the developing world, this one initially seemed a little too positive. However, I'm fully on board- he dreamt big and he achieved big - yes, he probably faced much adversity and failure, but he accomplished so much more, and that is what is worth sharing. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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