PharmaSource community members and podcast guests recommend the books they have found useful and inspiring.
Net Positive by Peter Polman
Fred Turco, VP, Enterprise Indirects and Sustainable Sourcing Lead at Pfizer, recommends Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take by Peter Polman:
“Net Positive is a thought-provoking exploration of how businesses can create long-term value while positively impacting society and the environment. It offers practical guidance for leaders to drive sustainable change and achieve a net positive impact.” Get your copy
From Source to Sold: Stories of Leadership in Supply Chain by Radu
Palamariu and Knut Alicke
Roxana Timmermans External Manufacturing Leader at Biogen, recommends From Source to Sold:
“From Source to Sold offers invaluable insights from top supply chain leaders, showcasing their stories, strategies, and leadership styles, making it a must-read for aspiring supply chain professionals”.
The Great American Drug Deal – A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines by Peter Kolchinsky
John Lamattina Senior Partner at PureTech Health, recommends The Great American Drug Deal:
“The Great American Drug Deal scrutinizes all players in the industry and examines ideas for closing loopholes, encouraging investment, dealing with bad actors, and most importantly, educating consumers”. Get your copy
The Push by Ashley Audrain
Angelika Klinger Expert for Female Leadership, Gender Equity & DEI at Roche, recommends The Push:
“The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting. An utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.” Get your copy
Humanocracy by Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini
Malik Akhtar VP Procurement Consumer Health at Bayer, recommends Humanocracy:
“Humanocracy by Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini challenges the traditional ways of organizing and managing companies. It offers a new model focused on creating organizations that are more human, adaptable, and innovative”. Get your copy
Entrepreneurial Negotiation: Understanding and Managing the Relationships that Determine Your Entrepreneurial Success by Samuel Dinnar, Lawrence Susskind
David Caron SVP CMC at Immunome, recommends Entrepreneurial Negotiation:
“Entrepreneurial Negotiation presents entrepreneurship as a series of interactions between founders, partners, potential partners, investors and others at various stages of the entrepreneurial process – from seed to exit”. Get your copy
Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work and What Does by Susan Fowler
Lana Radosevic, Global Supplier Lead in Procurement Excellence at Astellas, recommends Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work and What Does
“Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work and What Does is based around the following statement: “The reason why motivating people doesn’t work is because people are always motivated. The question is not if they are motivated but why they are motivated.
For a person to positively impact performance, enduring energy, vitality and well-being, Fowler identifies two significant components of motivation: Self-regulation and psychological needs.” Get your copy
The Work of Art by Adam Moss
Gil Roth President at Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association (PBOA), recommends The Work of Art
“Adam Moss was the former editor of New York magazine, and this book contains dozens of interviews with artists of all stripes — painters, writers, musicians, cartoonists, poets, textile-makers, playwrights, crossword-puzzle-makers — with a focus on the creation of a single piece by each of them.
The conversations are illuminating; his subjects really go deep on their creative process, the conscious decisions and the happy accidents, the benefits of limitations, the foundation that each one is building on, the mistakes they made, and a lot more”. Get your copy
Expert to Entrepreneur by Jeffrey Kiplinger
Ray Sison Managing Partner at SCxCMC, recommends Expert to Entrepreneur, by CDMO Live speaker Jeff Kiplinger:
“As a scientist/engineer starting another company, Jeff Kipling’s insights resonated with my experience and I found myself adding to his suggestions in everyday startup and growth activities”.
The Marketing Plan – A pictorial guide for managers by Malcolm H B McDonald and Peter Morris
Kath Darlington CEO at The Scott Partnership Ltd, recommends The Marketing Plan
“The Marketing Plan: a pictorial guide for managers is a unique approach to the complex world of marketing theory and practice. This book aids understanding and at the same time encourages marketing and other professionals to delve deeper into the planning process”. Get your copy
Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban
Thomas Wilson VP, Contract Manufacturing Business Leader at Pfizer CentreOne, recommends Bottle of Lies:
“I am always focused on the impact that we have on patients and our never-ending obligation to do the right thing. Based on that I encourage my teams to read Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban.
It is essential that we are always on guard to do the right thing and keep a wary eye for anyone who may want to try to shortcut our moral obligation to do the right thing for patients”. Get your copy
The Universe in Your Hand by Christophe Galfard
Dr. Enric Bosch Radó Global Third party manager Chemicals Manager at Boehringer Ingelheim, recommends The Universe in Your Hand by Christophe Galfard
“The Universe in Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant black holes. Along the way you might come to understand, really understand, the mind-bending science that underpins modern life, from quantum mechanics to Einstein’s theory of general relativity”. Get your copy
Between the Spreadsheets: Classifying and Fixing Dirty Data by Susan Walsh
Susan Walsh Founder at The Classification Guru, recommends Between the Spreadsheets
“Between the Spreadsheets: Classifying and Fixing Dirty Data draws on my decade of experience in data classification to present a fool-proof method for cleaning and classifying your data. The book covers everything from the very basics of data classification to normalisation and taxonomies, and presents the author’s proven COAT methodology, helping ensure an organisation’s data is Consistent, Organised, Accurate and Trustworthy”. Get your copy
Yes to the Mess – Surprising Leadership Lessons From Jazz by Frank J. Barrett
Carmen Kerschbaum Global Life Sciences Leader Endless at Frontier Labs, recommends Yes to the Mess
“Yes To The Mess was given to me as a gift from one of my former employee with a very nice message: ‘Find your “Jam Space”, invite others to it and enjoy the unexpected discoveries on the way’, which ultimately took me to a better version of myself. It’s an art to unlearn, experiment and perform simultaneously”. Get Your Copy
Never eat alone by Keith Ferrazzi
Thorsten Fallisch Senior Director, Head of global R&D Procurement at Grunenthal, recommends Never eat alone
“Never eat alone” by Keith Ferrazzi. It’s full of simple advice on how to build and foster networks, which in the end is, what we all need for business. And in addition the book is, despite its 400+ pages an easy read. It left me with the wish to consciously work on my network. Which in one way let to me now suggesting this book to the PharmaSource community”. Get Your Copy
How The War Was Won by Phillips Payson O’Brien
Len DeCandia Advisory Board Member/Consultant, recommends How The War Was Won
“How The War Was Won by Phillips Payson O’Brien is very detailed account of how the supply chain was critical to the success of the Allies in WWII”. Get Your Copy
For Blood and Money – Nathan Vardi
Jack Shute, Managing Director at Vector, recommends For Blood and Money Get Your Copy
For Blood and Money tells the little-known story of how an upstart biotechnology company created a one-in-a-million cancer drug, and how the core team – denied their share of the profits – went and did it again.
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
Eduardo da Fonseca, Head of Supply Chain at Bioeq AG, recommends Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
“From some of the same authors of ”Getting to Yes”, this book shows how to stop avoiding those difficult conversations and how to handle them. These skills are crucial in an Operations environment, where we often have tough moments with suppliers, partners or internal teams.” Get Your Copy
Empire of Pain by Patrick Keefe
Steve Brooks, President at Steve Brooks Consulting LLC, recommends Empire of Pain Get Your Copy
The book examines the history of the Sackler family, including the founding of Purdue Pharma, its role in the marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the family’s central role in the opioid epidemic.
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
Helena Bayley Analyst, Thought Leadership at IQVIA, recommends Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Living longer – and importantly healthier – lives is a topic that’s not only on the minds of billionaires making million-dollar bets on the next Silicon Valley-based start-up company, but actually a worldwide trend. The quest for eternal life is by no means new. What has changed in recent years is that the fundamentals of ageing are slowly being demystified. Among the pseudosciences, some concepts and mechanisms of action – including medicines – manage to stand out from all the noise. In his book, Ramakrishnan covers the fundamentals of ageing one chapter at a time, and discusses the promising developments in longevity research. Get Your Copy
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