More Than Managing: The Relentless Pursuit of Effective Jewish Leadership
Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on organizational change and effective leadership, but from mutually exclusive sources: business and organizational studies, on the one hand; and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses leadership but not the religious soul. The other speaks from its Jewish soul but is only secondarily engaged in the study of leadership. More Than Managing thoughtfully combines both to be immediately applicable to Jewish organizational life.

Inspired by thirty years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges facing communal life and the skills and strategies demanded by them. Contributors include professors at Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership and The Harvard Business School who have worked over the past three decades with Israel’s rising leadership in the public sector. These internationally known voices are matched by alumni and faculty of The Wexner Foundation’s professional and volunteer programs, who lead and advise Jewish communities throughout North America and Israel.

The book features diverse strategies for twenty-first-century leadership, critical lessons for organizational and communal success, and the questions vital to our changing and challenging times. Questions include how leaders may overcome the mediocrity of bureaucratic organizations; how organizations can harness volunteer leadership for transformative change; and how professionals can sustain core values in the midst of daily routine. Its diverse array of writers with international reputations in their fields makes it the only book of its kind. Potential readers include leaders of any religious not-for-profits—not just Jewish. The almost 50 contributors, including Leslie Wexner, combine secular insights on leadership with innovative insights drawn from Judaism’s spiritual heritage.

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More Than Managing: The Relentless Pursuit of Effective Jewish Leadership
Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on organizational change and effective leadership, but from mutually exclusive sources: business and organizational studies, on the one hand; and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses leadership but not the religious soul. The other speaks from its Jewish soul but is only secondarily engaged in the study of leadership. More Than Managing thoughtfully combines both to be immediately applicable to Jewish organizational life.

Inspired by thirty years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges facing communal life and the skills and strategies demanded by them. Contributors include professors at Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership and The Harvard Business School who have worked over the past three decades with Israel’s rising leadership in the public sector. These internationally known voices are matched by alumni and faculty of The Wexner Foundation’s professional and volunteer programs, who lead and advise Jewish communities throughout North America and Israel.

The book features diverse strategies for twenty-first-century leadership, critical lessons for organizational and communal success, and the questions vital to our changing and challenging times. Questions include how leaders may overcome the mediocrity of bureaucratic organizations; how organizations can harness volunteer leadership for transformative change; and how professionals can sustain core values in the midst of daily routine. Its diverse array of writers with international reputations in their fields makes it the only book of its kind. Potential readers include leaders of any religious not-for-profits—not just Jewish. The almost 50 contributors, including Leslie Wexner, combine secular insights on leadership with innovative insights drawn from Judaism’s spiritual heritage.

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More Than Managing: The Relentless Pursuit of Effective Jewish Leadership

More Than Managing: The Relentless Pursuit of Effective Jewish Leadership

by Lawrence A. Hoffman PhD (Editor)
More Than Managing: The Relentless Pursuit of Effective Jewish Leadership

More Than Managing: The Relentless Pursuit of Effective Jewish Leadership

by Lawrence A. Hoffman PhD (Editor)

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Overview

Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on organizational change and effective leadership, but from mutually exclusive sources: business and organizational studies, on the one hand; and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses leadership but not the religious soul. The other speaks from its Jewish soul but is only secondarily engaged in the study of leadership. More Than Managing thoughtfully combines both to be immediately applicable to Jewish organizational life.

Inspired by thirty years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges facing communal life and the skills and strategies demanded by them. Contributors include professors at Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership and The Harvard Business School who have worked over the past three decades with Israel’s rising leadership in the public sector. These internationally known voices are matched by alumni and faculty of The Wexner Foundation’s professional and volunteer programs, who lead and advise Jewish communities throughout North America and Israel.

The book features diverse strategies for twenty-first-century leadership, critical lessons for organizational and communal success, and the questions vital to our changing and challenging times. Questions include how leaders may overcome the mediocrity of bureaucratic organizations; how organizations can harness volunteer leadership for transformative change; and how professionals can sustain core values in the midst of daily routine. Its diverse array of writers with international reputations in their fields makes it the only book of its kind. Potential readers include leaders of any religious not-for-profits—not just Jewish. The almost 50 contributors, including Leslie Wexner, combine secular insights on leadership with innovative insights drawn from Judaism’s spiritual heritage.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781580238700
Publisher: TURNER PUB CO
Publication date: 11/29/2016
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 3.60(d)

About the Author

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, has served for more than three decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He is a world-renowned liturgist and holder of the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual. His work combines research in Jewish ritual, worship and spirituality with a passion for the spiritual renewal of contemporary Judaism.

His many books, written and edited, include seven volumes in the Prayers of Awe series: Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef; All These Vows—Kol Nidre; We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet; May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor; All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days; Naming God: Avinu MalkeinuOur Father, Our King; and Encountering God: El Rachum V'chanun—God Merciful and Gracious. Hoffman also edited the ten-volume series My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and coedited My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Hoffman cofounded and developed Synagogue 2/3000, a transdenominational project to envision and implement the ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first century. In that capacity, he wrote Rethinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life (Jewish Lights).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction

Leadership and the Jewish Condition Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD xiii

Foreword

A Values Map: The Journey to Our Best Selves Rabbi B. Elka Abrahamson|xix

Part 1 What Leaders Need to Know

Lessons on Leadership 3

Nudging as a Tool of Leaders Dr. Max H. Bazerman 5

The Power of inclusion Patricia Bellinger 9

Purpose, People, and Principle; Leadership for the Unnatural Leader Dr. David T. Ellwood 13

Leading So You Get It Wrong Arna Poupko Fisher 18

The Epitome of an Authentic Leader Bill George 22

Jewish Adaptability, Authority, and Leadership Ronald Heifetz 26

The Heart of Darkness Dr. Barbara Kellerman 31

I've Never Experienced Anything Like the Times We Are In Marty Linsky 35

The Leader as Negotiator Dr. Brian Mandell 40

Leaders and Managers: Divergence and Convergence Larry Moses 44

Four Kiwis and the Jewish Future Rabbi Aaron Panken, PhD 48

Showing Up: The Power of Presence Rae Ringel 52

Riding the Mood Elevator Dr. Larry Senn 55

To Do or to Be: Leadership Lessons from the Court of St. James's Ambassador Daniel Taub 60

Jewish Models of Leadership 65

Leading Change: A Lesson from Tamar and Judah Maya Bernstein 67

What Do You Stand For? Dr. Erica Brown 71

Tears of Doubt: Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai's Spiritual Legacy Dr. Ruth Calderon 74

The Impossible Task of Jewish Leadership Rabbi Edward Feinstein 78

First Plant the Sapling: Beyond Messianic Leadership Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow, DPhil 82

Solidarity Ethnic and Human: Moses and Moral Responsibility Rabbi Shai Held, PhD 86

The Moral Mandate of Community Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer 90

The Global Wrap of T'fillin: Touching Our Heart but Reaching the World Rabbi Asher Lopatin 94

Look Out Above! Keeping Values in Sight on Our Halachic Hike Rabbi Daniel S. Nevins 97

The God Who Loves Pluralism Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, PhD 101

Leading from Tents, Not from Arks Rabbi Joanna Samuels 105

Marshmallows, Ketchup, and Redemption: How Leaders Manage Expectations Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, PhD 108

The Voice at the Table Susan K. Stern 112

Judge Away Rabbi Shira Stutman 115

Leadership and Confrontation: Lessons from Moses and God Rabbi Melissa Weintraub 119

Keep It Simple: The Three Stages of Change Rabbi Avi Weiss 123

"Let What Is Broken So Remain": Leadership's Lotus Hour Rabbi Mishael Zion 127

Part 2 The Jewish Condition

The Global View 133

Why Programs in Leadership? Why Now? A Historical Perspective Dr. Robert Chazan 135

Three Eras of Jewish History and Their Leaders Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg 138

The Jewish People's Story, Not Just My Own Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt 143

Leadership for the New Era: The Challenge / The Opportunity Dr. John Ruskay 147

Challenges in Israel 151

Leader as Gatekeeper: Battling Corruption in a Diverse Democracy Avia Alef, Adv, LLM, MC-MPA 153

Speaking Up for Israel's Voiceless Sharon Abraham-Weiss, Adv, ELM, MC-MPA 157

Stop Feeling Sorry for Disabled Children (Start Respecting Them Instead) Dr. Mount Beeri 160

Out of the Shtetl: A Mature, Confident, and Constructive Zionism Nadav Tamir 164

Gender in the IDF: Promoting Women Leadership in a Male Organization Brigadier General Rachel Tevet Wieseï 168

The Enduring Leadership of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's Eternal "Old Man" Major General (retired) Amos Yadlin 172

Challenges in America 177

American Jews Speak a "Jewish Language" Dr. Sarah Bunin Benor 179

The Tones of Leadership Dr. David Bryfman 183

Orthodox Jewish Feminism on the Rise: Offense Is Your Best Defense Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greener 187

The Quietly Insistent Entrepreneur Peter A. Joseph 191

Model-Driven or Market-Driven? A Lesson from Birthright Israel Dr. Shaul Kelner 195

Student Lives on the Line: Moral Leadership in Jewish Day Schools Rabbi Judd Kruger Levingston, PhD 199

Part 3 Appreciation

Les Wexner, Harry Truman, and the Leadership of Readership David Gergen 205

Les Wexner and the Polar Bears Charles R. Bronfman 212

Leadership: The Most Important Topic Leslie Wexner 216

Conclusion

Ten Commandments for Leaders Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD 221

Notes 224

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