MaHui Book Giveaway | Pfizer CEO's New Book: How to Face an Uncertain Future?
The limits of scientific innovation, difficult yet precise decision-making, superlative teamwork, and step-by-step, grounded execution.
How should we face an "uncertain future"? Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla's answer is: pushing science to its innovative limits, making difficult but precise decisions, fostering extraordinary teamwork, and putting one foot in front of the other. On May 5, 2023, the WHO declared that COVID-19 no longer constituted a "public health emergency of international concern." The three-year pandemic had temporarily come to a close, yet this global public health crisis had permanently embedded itself in human history — the complex emotions, the intertwining of individuals and collectives, all compressed into the same temporal dimension. Standing in the present and gazing toward the future, everything about this crisis can now be reexamined and reconsidered...
In this edition of MaHui Book Giveaway, Source Code Capital and Cheers Publishing proudly recommend — Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla's new book Science Will Win.
The pharmaceutical industry was the most closely watched sector during this pandemic crisis, and as a globally renowned biopharmaceutical company, Pfizer played a pivotal role — developing the world's first mRNA vaccine. Its actions were driven by both commercial imperatives and a social mission.
People are genuinely curious: when the crisis spread across the globe, when everyone pinned their hopes on a vaccine, what did Pfizer actually go through? How did they do it? And how did they manage to create a miracle?
Bourla joined Pfizer in 1993 and has served as CEO since 2019. In Science Will Win, he recounts in detail how he led a team of 90,000 people to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in just nine months, offering a comprehensive look at how an enterprise can achieve rapid breakthroughs through efficient collaboration when confronted with a highly uncertain future. He puts it this way in the book: Our success was not a matter of luck, but of preparation. Our story was made possible by three factors: the power of science, the meaning that a vibrant corporation can bring to society, and the immense potential of human ingenuity.
If you ask what entrepreneurs can learn from Bourla and Pfizer's arduous, miraculous journey, the answer would be: the accumulated experience of facing formidable challenges, the core values upheld, and the know-how of achieving success. Knowledge across these dimensions may inspire and enlighten us as we climb upward, and help us create our own miracles.
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