Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children Imb Publishing Australian Cattle Dog Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of

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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children Imb Publishing Australian Cattle Dog Vladimir Mayakovsky was one ofJohn 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, the organization will have established over 5,000 libraries