I’ve read a string of great books lately, parts of which occasionally flash into my consciousness, but none has made the same impression as Leaving Microsoft to Change the World. It’s the self-told story of John Wood’s departure from Microsoft to create libraries at first, then classrooms, then schools and finally scholarships in Southeast Asia and parts of Africa through his nonprofit Room to Read. And it’s wonderful–for Wood’s relatable candidness and self-awareness, applied business and fundraising lessons and convincing argument that it doesn’t take much money to alter the trajectory of an individual’s life.
Reading Leaving Microsoft to Change the World changed the way I give. I now look for more direct
impact opportunities and organizations that facilitate them. I’m more optimistic about the real possibility for change in developing economies. I’m more focused on causes, campaigns and donations that make a damn of difference. Less hoopla, more impact.
Unlike Three Cups of Tea, which split its focus between Greg Mortenson’s work to bring education and opportunity to backwater areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the region’s geopolitical history, Wood’s book is a terrific guide to launching an enterprise. He applies lessons learned from business school and Microsoft to Room to Read, a nonprofit organization, “I knew from day one that I had to be a salesperson as focused on cash inflow as I was on program delivery. It was logical that [understanding the importance of capital] would help me in my business career…but this focus was an even bigger competitive advantage in the charity world.”
Thanks for depicting the summary in such intutive way. The story of Jhon Wood is pretty encouraging. I must read the story in full now.
By the way I would have love to know names of some of the organizations that facilitate direct impact opportunities as you have mentioned.
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A very rare person have such good thinking like John Wood have. Such people can really change the world. I will definitely reed out its entire life history.
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