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Product Description John 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 and 400 schools, and awarded long-term scholarships to more than 3,000 girls, giving more than one million children the lifelong gift of education. If you have ever pondered abandoning your desk job for an adventure and an opportunity to give back, Wood’s story will inspire you. He 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 the world’s most pressing social problems. Amazon. com ReviewJohn 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.

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Product DescriptionHow supplies to change the world-life profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book In Search of Excellence is one of social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes and analysis. The reader will discover how one person can make a surprising difference to the world. include the case studies in the book Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the international campaign against land mines, they run away by e-mail from her home Vermont, Roberto Baggio, a 31-year-old Brazilian who has established eighty schools computer in the slums of Brazil and Diana Proper, the investment banking process was used to make American corporations responsive to environmental hazards. The paperback edition is a new preface by the author, expanded as the concept of social entrepreneurship and has unfolded in recent years, including the Gates-Buffett-profit partnership, the rise of Google and the growing mainstream reporting shows about the subject. The book will also update the stories of individual social entrepreneurs that appeared in the cloth edition. Amazon. com ReviewBook description published in over twenty countries, such as the world has to change the bible for social entrepreneurship. We have found profiles men and women from around the world, innovative solutions for a variety of social and economic problems. Whether they deliver on solar energy to Brazilian villagers, or improving access to higher education in the United States, work, social entrepreneurs, offer groundbreaking solutions designed to change lives. Discover amazing facts about social entrepreneurs from author David Bornstein According to a recent Harris Poll, a whopping 97% of Generation Y are looking for work, which allows them to “influence the world.” emerged in recent years, courses in social entrepreneurship or centers in over 250 universities and colleges such as Harvard Business School, the Yale School of Management, Duke, NYU Stern & Wagner, Wharton, Oxford and Stanford. Teach for America received 25,000 applications for 3,700 slots in 2008, an increase of more than one third compared to 2007. Applied in Ivy League schools like Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth and nearly 10% of all graduates to the program. In the past two years, the Acumen Fund, an organization that social entrepreneurs, the big problems with the business solutions (such as mosquito nets, water purification, Housing loans to solve), received more than 1,000 applications from top-ranking companies for supporting students only 15 scholarship positions. created the list of top business entrepreneurs who are either high in full-time or a significant amount of time for social entrepreneurship impressive: Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, Omidyar Network, to “enable an individual self-empowerment on a global scale.” Jeff Skoll, co-founder of ebay is running, Participant Productions, the socially conscious films like “An Inconvenient Truth and Good Night and Good Luck makes. Bill Gates, Microsoft has left to pursue a full-time career in philanthropy. Warren Buffett recently donated 30000000000 $ to the Gates Foundation. William Draper, one of the largest venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, a new Draper Richards Foundation Social is to assist entrepreneurs. Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (Davos), founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google co-founder, Google created. org, which supports social entrepreneurs and has raised more than $ 1000000000. Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr has made efforts to raise $ 100,000,000 to micro-credit. The Grameen Bank, the leading example of social entrepreneurs worldwide, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. The Bridgespan Group, a consulting group that advises social entrepreneurs, received 1800 applications for 18 jobs in 2006.

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Personally, I believe that the entrepreneurs of today (business leaders, founders, visionaires) share virtually the same qualities as the people who created our complex civilization, explored the oceans and the unknown lands.
I think by definition, an entrepreneur is firmly convinced that success is possibly for him or her no matter what the environment is – it might require more effort, but I think all entrepreneurs believe that there are no limits to what one can accomplish, or that those limits are so high that for all practical purposes, they are limitless.

I think we have to remember something about our world today – we know a lot of things. “Exploring the unknown” has become something that is very difficult, simply because we know so much as a civilization.

But in the days when we didn’t know why the sun shone, why objects always fell down, why people died, where the ends of the earth was, almost all of the world was the unknown. Most people still today fear the unknown and change – even when our world is so well-known and understood – imagine how difficult life must have been for an average person in the past – he would not dare to venture beyond his comfort zone of what was known and accepted.
The greatly successful entrepreneurs of today were the people in our ancient civilizations that just like today, embraced uncertainty, change, and sought to master it. When most saw the world beyond what they knew with fear, those special few looked at the world beyond what they could see with anticipation and opportunity and an almost uncontrollable thirst for adventure and curiosity.

Those special people certainly were scared too – but they acted in spite of fear and embraced the unknown for what it was worth – filled with unimaginable opportunity or death and danger. We’ll never know the names of the people that created human civilization and bequeathed to our generation what we have to day.

The qualities that define entrepreneurship transcend time and circumstance. I am left to conclude that entrepreneurs, explorers, adventurers, conquerers have special qualities that allow them to become great leaders. And those billionaires we see on Forbes, they’re who created human civ!
The problem with Karl Marx’s theories is that he assumes that the existence of social classes means that there is a class struggle. There are social classes – there is no doubt about it. But the social classes emerge naturally because people are different in their will and desire and capabilities to achieve success.

Serfs weren’t resentful of their masters – serfs desired protection and security, and they received it in exchange for their freedom.

If there was really a class struggle, then why has society been able to retain a class structure for so long? Just think about this – a system that truly is in line with what the people want will last. A system that is not in line with what the people want won’t last. Social classes have lasted for ten thousand years. Communism died in less than 100. People naturally organize themselves into social classes with accordance to their personal qualities, and those in lower classes do not feel resentment.
Think about who Marx was – he was an upper class, wealthy person who didn’t have to work.

It is only the “noble” person that is trapped in his low-class circumstance that feels resentment and a burning desire to improve. That’s why successful people often come from the lower classes. But MOST people in the lower classes are followers – they are motivated not by their own dreams and passions, but by an external authority.

And if a person is inherently a follower, there is a limit to what he or she can accomplish. A person who isn’t motivated from within and doesn’t hold himself up to a high standard can only accomplish so much.

Marxism is simply a baseless, absurd theory that happened to catch on because it sounds good and seems to make sense. But remember, the most dangerous thing isn’t the lie, it’s the lie that is carefully crafted as the truth.

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a) She kicked me in the balls, that doesn’t really count as getting beat up
b) I wasn’t really trying because she’s a girl
c) I bet she could beat you up too

PS I know guys shouldn’t fight girls and needless to say I would not do it again – no need to post that comment