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How John Wood Left Microsoft to Change the World -- through Books (Including His Own)

Dec 13, 200611 min
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Episode description

In 1998 Microsoft executive John Wood decided to take a rare and hard-won vacation. He started out trekking in Nepal and ended up establishing a foundation Room to Read that has created nearly 3 000 libraries in the developing world and stocked them with more than one million books. His experiences are chronicled in a recently-published book that offers his corporate-based perspective on how to raise money market the product leverage relationships and ultimately maximize results.

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