To Make a Difference: A Prescription for a Good Life
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.
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To Make a Difference: A Prescription for a Good Life
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.
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To Make a Difference: A Prescription for a Good Life

To Make a Difference: A Prescription for a Good Life

To Make a Difference: A Prescription for a Good Life

To Make a Difference: A Prescription for a Good Life

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773543348
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 05/06/2014
Pages: 228
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Morris Goodman, a Montreal-based pharmacist and philanthropist, is co-founder and Chairman of Pharmascience Inc. Joel Yanofsky's most recent book is Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism.

Table of Contents

Prologue 3

1 Second Nature 15

2 Mentors 22

3 The Faculty of Pharmacy 35

4 Starting Out: May 1953 44

5 New Ventures 54

6 Building a Business 65

7 Seller's Remorse 74

8 The Writing on the Wall 85

9 Fresh Start 95

10 Swinging for the Fences 108

11 Pharmascience Meets the World 138

12 Going Home Again 152

13 Investing in People: Two Case Studies 162

14 Making a Difference 171

15 Roz 182

16 Pulling Together 194

Epilogue 211

Acknowledgments 215

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