Leading With Meaning: Using Covenantal Leadership to Build a Better Organization - Hardcover

Pava, Moses

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403961328 ISBN 13: 9781403961327

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2003

Synopsis

What makes a good leader? How does good leadership impact an organization? Moses Pava's Leading With Meaning argues that meaningful and useful answers to these questions are available in traditional religious and spiritual resources. Pava shows how religion can talk to real world problems by exploring traditional literature that deal with the idea of the biblical covenant and Jewish leadership. Using what can be learned from these in the business world is the key to building leadership based on mutual trust and respect--a covenantal leadership. In the aftermath of the Enron scandal, leadership with a soul is more important than ever before. This book offers the paths of Humanity, of No Illusions, of Integration, of Moral Imagination, of the Role Model, and of Moral Growth as six ways to achieve it. The best teachers have always showed us how to use yesterday's language to solve tomorrow's problems. Moses Pava continues in this tradition and clearly shows us why a covenantal leader is a successful leader.

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About the Author

Moses Pava is a professor of Business Ethics at Yeshiva University and author of eight books including Jewish Business Ethics. He currently lives in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Review

“...possibly his best work, evidencing a maturity of thought and confidence of expression.... Professor Pava is quite explicit in what he is seeking to do: demonstrate how traditional Jewish sources relating to the Jewish concept of covenant can provide...specific examples to assist business leaders in resolving ‘real world problems' in the here and now.” ―Edwin Epstein, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

“I don't know any other book or major article that makes such an intelligent use of the Jewish faith tradition in order to illuminate contemporary problems of leadership and organization building. I wish authors from the Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and other traditions would follow Mr. Pava's lead by drawing on their own religious resources in order to enrich the understanding of business ethics.” ―Georges Enderle, University of Notre Dame

“I believe that [Moses] Pava has written an original, insightful, and provocative book.” ―Timothy L. Fort, University of Michigan Business School

“In Leading with Meaning : Using Covenantal Leadership to Build a Stronger Organization, Pava admirably displays his comfort with, and commitment to, the teachings of Torah Umadda, the harmonization of the Jewish religious tradition with the secular world around him. ... No utopian he, Pava work is pragmatically rooted in the realities of the market place and not in some idealized cloistered setting. I was particularly impressed with the way ancient texts are brought alive by the author in dealing with contemporary concerns. Leading with Meaning, will be greeted enthusiastically both academic business ethicists and by practical entrepreneurs interested in elevating their lives and work to a higher moral plane.” ―Dr. Norman Lamm, President, Yeshiva University

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1403961328
• ISBN 13: 9781403961327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192