Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life''s work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft''s charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes education across the developing world. By the end of 2007, th...
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life''s work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft''s charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes education across the developing world. By the end of 2007, th...
