出版社: HarperBusiness
副标题: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children
出版年: 2007-9-4
页数: 304
定价: USD 16.99
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780061121081
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John Wood 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...
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John Wood 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."
See how John Wood came to start Room to Read and write Leaving Microsoft to Change the World in this video clip: high bandwidth or low bandwidth 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.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
约翰·伍德在享有盛誉的凯洛格商学院攻取MBA后,曾在金融业工作数年,并于1991年进入微软工作。由于工作努力、行动果敢,他迅速成长起来,先后得到了在澳大利亚及中国地区令人艳羡的海外任职机会。在任职微软中国市场开发总监时期,伍德决意改变自己的生活航向,转而为贫困的孩子送去能使其受益终生的教育大礼,以帮助他们打破宿命的循环。
在2000年,他创建了“阅读空间”,一个非营利性慈善组织,旨在提高尼泊尔、印度、斯里兰卡、柬埔寨、老挝、越南和非洲等一些地区的文教水平。伍德与“阅读空间”基金会的目标是:到2020年,开办20000间图书馆,使该组织遍及非洲、南美洲,甚至是全世界。
除环游世界筹集资金和访问“阅读空间”资助的社区之外,他都居住在旧金山。
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1 有用 Jane 2018-01-15 11:07:56
John Wood 是慈善事业的好例子。他為了窮國小孩而辭去微軟的高薪厚祿,把企业实战经验用在慈善事业。
1 有用 Jane 2018-01-15 11:07:56
John Wood 是慈善事业的好例子。他為了窮國小孩而辭去微軟的高薪厚祿,把企业实战经验用在慈善事业。