Inspired Jewish Leadership: Practical Approaches to Building Strong Communities
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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Book details
- Author
- Erica Brown
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Religion › Leadership - Topics
- community building · religious leadership · Judaism · leadership development · conflict resolution · Jewish community
- ISBN-13
- 9781683361299 (Paperback)9781580233613 (Hardcover)
About the author
ERICA BROWN is a writer and educator and the author of fifteen books on leadership, the Hebrew Bible, and spirituality. Her recent books include Inspired Jewish Leadership: Practical Approaches to Building Strong Communities.
Brown received the 2009 Covenant Award for her work in education. Inspired Jewish Leadership was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. She holds master’s degrees from the University of London and Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from Baltimore Hebrew University.
When she’s not writing, Brown serves as Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and as founding director of its Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership. Her books draw on her extensive work in Jewish education and community leadership.
Erica lives in Maryland.