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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: Dr. Erica Brown, an inspiring writer and educator, is scholar-in-residence for the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington.
- 256 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Judaism
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About the Book
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.Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
"Insists that our community can nurture leaders for this generation and beyond; practical, grounded insights inspire hope and confidence that we need not despair of infinite and endless wandering in the midbar of modern living."
-Jeff Swartz, CEO, Timberland Company
"Passionate and inspired ... takes the choicest wisdom from Jewish and business texts, and applies it to the day-to-day challenges of Jewish organizational life. Everyone in Jewish leadership-professionals, students, and volunteers-should read and master this volume."
-Jonathan D. Sarna, director, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program, Brandeis University
"Lucid, appealing, brilliant ... should be required reading for those concerned with Jewish communal life today and tomorrow.... Touches the heart as well as the mind."
-Sylvia Barack Fishman, professor of contemporary Jewish life, Brandeis University; author, The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness
"Deeply rooted in Jewish vision and dreams, learning and literature, optimism and the possibility of transformational leadership. This book will become the basic textbook on leadership training in the Jewish community."
-Barry Shrage, president, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
"Accessible.... Offers a range of helpful ideas about leading Jewish organizations today."
-Shulamit Reinharz, Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University; founding director, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
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.
