Erica Brown

Inspired Jewish Leadership

Practical Approaches to Building Strong Communities

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Produktbeschreibung

This practical and inspiring book provides real-life anecdotes, interactive exercises and questions for reflection to help you develop your leadership skills and dialogue with others about issues like conflict resolution and effective succession planning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jewish Lights
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781683361299
• ISBN-10: 1683361296
• Artikelnr.: 45375495

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Leading and Meaning
1. Guilt and Pleasure: Putting the Jewish in Jewish Leadership
2. Defining Leadership
3. Who Are We Leading? Age, Ethnicity, and Community
4. Vision and Mentoring
5. Authentic Leadership
6. The Optimistic Leader
7. Leading for Transformation
8. Nurturing Women's Leadership
9. Jewish Leadership and Conflict Resolution
10. Ethical Leadership
11. Changing the World, Changing Ourselves: A Crash Course on Change
Management
12. Creating Meaningful Board Service
13. Who's Next? Effective Succession Planning
Appendix 1: Twenty-five Questions a Jewish Leader Should Ask
Appendix 2: Leadership Exercises
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading