Inspired Jewish Leadership: Practical Approaches to Building Strong Communities - Softcover

Brown, Dr. Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683361296 ISBN 13: 9781683361299

Publisher: Jewish Lights, 2008

Synopsis

Help sustain the Jewish tradition's legacy of community leadership by building strong leaders today.

"Great Jewish leadership has helped us survive slavery, guided us to the Promised Land, given us hope through exile and oppression, helped us enjoy membership in a nation of overachievers and given birth to the State of Israel. Great Jewish leadership generates vision and, as a result, followers. It inspires us and helps us to stretch higher, see farther and reach deeper."
―from the Introduction

Drawing on the past and looking to the future, this practical guide provides the tools you need to work through important contemporary leadership issues. It takes a broad look at positions of leadership in the modern Jewish community and the qualities and skills you need in order to succeed in these positions. Real-life anecdotes, interviews and dialogue stimulate thinking about board development, ethical leadership, conflict resolution, change management and effective succession planning.

Whether you are a professional or a volunteer, are looking to develop your own personal leadership skills or are part of a group, this inspiring book provides information, interactive exercises and questions for reflection to help you define leadership styles and theories, expose common myths and coach others on the importance of leading with meaning.

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From the Inside Flap

Learn the skills you need to be a great leader-- a must-have for all levels of Jewish community involvement. Given the challenges facing the Jewish community in Israel and the United States today, we need leaders of great wisdom, understanding, and vision to communicate hope and purpose, and to inspire mutual responsibility, particularly at times of crisis and vulnerability.

Drawing from ancient models of Jewish leadership, contemporary professional business literature, and Jewish texts, Dr. Erica Brown lays the framework for working through important leadership issues and illustrates how great leadership can be learned when you are equipped with resources, reflective training, and a helpful network of mentors.

Full of personal anecdotes from experienced Jewish leaders, questions for reflection, and easy-to-do exercises, this valuable sourcebook is ideal for professionals and volunteers who want to hone their own skills as well as facilitate group leadership development. It will help you and your organization understand how successful institutions operate and give you the resources you need to implement change in your own community.

"Eloquent insight into how Jewish history and ideals cultivate a positive foundation for the kind of leadership that inspires others to excellence."
--Senator Joseph I. Lieberman

About the Author

Dr. Erica Brown, an inspiring writer and educator, is scholar-in-residence for the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. She consults for the Jewish Agency and other Jewish non-profits, and is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation. She is an Avi Chai Fellow, winner of the Ted Farber Professional Excellence Award, and the recipient of a Covenant Award for her work in education. She is author of Confronting Scandal: How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things; Inspired Jewish Leadership: Practical Approaches to Building Strong Communities, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and Spiritual Boredom: Rediscovering the Wonder of Judaism and coauthor of The Case for Jewish Peoplehood: Can We Be One? (all Jewish Lights). She contributed to We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism―Ashamnu and Al Chet, Who by Fire, Who by Water―Un'taneh Tokef and All These Vows―Kol Nidre (all Jewish Lights). She lectures widely on subjects of Jewish interest and leadership. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, and can be reached at www.EricaBrown.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jewish Lights
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1683361296
• ISBN 13: 9781683361299
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256