To make a difference : a prescription for a good life / Morris Goodman with Joel Yanofsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Morris, author.

Yanofsky, Joel, 1955-2020, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goodman, Morris, 1931-.

Goodman, Morris.

Jews--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Jews.

Businesspeople--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Businesspeople.

Pharmacists--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Pharmacists.

Philanthropists--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Philanthropists.

Montréal (Québec)--Biography.

Montréal (Québec).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : Published for Pharmascience Inc. by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What goes into making a life successful and what does success mean? If you think about a life as a chemical equation, then the elements are obvious: family, work, purpose. The key is discovering how to get the balance just right. In To Make a Difference, Montreal entrepreneur and philanthropist Morris Goodman shares his personal and professional prescription for success and enduring happiness. Born in 1931 in Montreal to Ukrainian immigrants during the worst days of the Great Depression, Goodman recounts the events, strategies, and lucky breaks that led to a thriving company and a life of philanthropic accomplishments. From his first job as a pharmacy delivery boy to his graduation from the University of Montreal's Faculty of Pharmacy - when he had already started his own pharmaceutical company - through the crucial moments that created an international business, Goodman depicts stirring accounts of Montreal's Jewish community and the development of the global pharmaceutical industry. Along the way, he presents vivid, generous portraits of colleagues and business collaborators. To Make a Difference is a powerful rags-to-riches story but it is also much more - it is a heartfelt, candid, and inspiring exploration of what makes our lives rich, what we value, and why.

Contents:

Prologue

Second nature

Mentors

The Faculty of Pharmacy

Starting out : May 1953

New ventures

Building a business

Seller's remorse

The writing on the wall

Fresh start

Swinging for the fences

Pharmascience meets the world

Going home again

Investing in people : two case studies

Making a difference

Roz

Pulling together

Epilogue

Acknowledgmentsscott.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 5, 2014).

ISBN:

9780773590458

0773590455

9780773590441

0773590447

OCLC:

1055398639