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  Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children

  by John Wood

  John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work&#8212not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s&#8212but 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... (more)