Making a Difference: A Guide to Jewish Leadership and Not-for-profit Management - Softcover

Teutsch, David A.

 
9780938945147: Making a Difference: A Guide to Jewish Leadership and Not-for-profit Management
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0938945149 ISBN 13: 9780938945147
Publisher: Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Press, 2009

Synopsis

"Making a Difference: A Guide to Jewish Leadership and Not-for-Profit Management" provides an encyclopedic introduction to leading not-for-profit organizations in a time of rapid change and unprecedented turbulence. It integrates state-of-the-art insights from such fields as management, organizational culture, leadership, psychology and systems theory with Biblical, rabbinic and medieval Jewish texts, examples drawn from contemporary American Jewish organizational life, and the Jewish values, virtues and insights that mark distinctively Jewish leadership. This book challenges current and future presidents and chair people, program directors and executive vice presidents to take on critical challenges, including generating fresh vision that is anchored in enduring Jewish values, developing concrete objectives for fulfilling that vision, and building the teams that are needed to implement those objectives to accomplish trans formative change and maximize positive impact. Suitable for personal reading, group study and formal coursework, "Making a Difference" includes appendices that provide a full set of Jewish texts for group study, suggested additional readings and study questions. Each chapter provides discussion topics. This volume is not only a work of scholarship and an accessible textbook; it provides a manual for effective daily leadership rooted in skillful management, moral seriousness and disciplined leadership.

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About the Author

David Teutsch is the Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization and Director of the Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he previously served as president. He is editor of the groundbreaking Kol Haneshamah prayerbook series and five other volumes in the Guide series.

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Publisher
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0938945149
ISBN 13 
9780938945147
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
315