More Than Managing

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Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on organizational change and effective leadership, but from mutually exclusive sources: business and organizational studies, on the one hand; and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses leadership but not the religious soul. The other speaks from its Jewish soul but is only secondarily engaged in the study of leadership. More Than Managing thoughtfully combines both to be immediately applicable to Jewish organizational life.Inspired by thirty years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges facing communal life and the skills and strategies demanded by them. Contributors include professors at Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership and The Harvard Business School who have worked over the past three decades with Israel’s rising leadership in the public sector. These internationally known voices are matched by alumni and faculty of The Wexner Foundation’s professional and volunteer programs, who lead and advise Jewish communities throughout North America and Israel. The book features diverse strategies for twenty-first-century leadership, critical lessons for organizational and communal success, and the questions vital to our changing and challenging times. Questions include how leaders may overcome the mediocrity of bureaucratic organizations; how organizations can harness volunteer leadership for transformative change; and how professionals can sustain core values in the midst of daily routine. Its diverse array of writers with international reputations in their fields makes it the only book of its kind. Potential readers include leaders of any religious not-for-profits—not just Jewish. The almost 50 contributors, including Leslie Wexner, combine secular insights on leadership with innovative insights drawn from Judaism’s spiritual heritage.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Lawrence Hoffman
• Religion
• Leadership

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 29 novembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781683366812
• Langue: English

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MORE THAN
MANAGING
MORE THAN
MANAGING
THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF
EFFECTIVE JEWISH LEADERSHIP
Edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
Jewish Lights Publishing an imprint of Turner Publishing Company Nashville, Tennessee New York, New York
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More Than Managing: The Relentless Pursuit of Effective Jewish Leadership
2016 by Lawrence A. Hoffman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hoffman, Lawrence A., 1942- editor.
Title: More than managing: the relentless pursuit of effective Jewish leadership / edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD.
Description: Nashville, TN: Jewish Lights Publishing, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016027472| ISBN 9781580238700 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781580238830 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Jewish leadership. | Jewish leadership-United States. | Synagogues-United States-Organization and administration. | Leadership-Religious aspects-Judaism.
Classification: LCC DS140 .M67 2016 | DDC 303.3/4089924073-dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016027472
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Manufactured in the United States of America
Cover Design: Adam Reiss Interior Design: Thor Goodrich
To Leslie Wexner, a leader s leader.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Leadership and the Jewish Condition
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
Foreword
A Values Map: The Journey to Our Best Selves
Rabbi B. Elka Abrahamson
Part One
What Leaders Need to Know
Lessons on Leadership
Nudging as a Tool of Leaders
Dr. Max H. Bazerman
The Power of Inclusion
Patricia Bellinger
Purpose, People, and Principle: Leadership for the Unnatural Leader
Dr. David T. Ellwood
Leading So You Get It Wrong
Arna Poupko Fisher
The Epitome of an Authentic Leader
Bill George
Jewish Adaptability, Authority, and Leadership
Ronald Heifetz
The Heart of Darkness
Dr. Barbara Kellerman
I ve Never Experienced Anything Like the Times We Are In
Marty Linsky
The Leader as Negotiator
Dr. Brian Mandell
Leaders and Managers: Divergence and Convergence
Larry Moses
Four Kiwis and the Jewish Future
Rabbi Aaron Panken, PhD
Showing Up: The Power of Presence
Rae Ringel
Riding the Mood Elevator
Dr. Larry Senn
To Do or to Be: Leadership Lessons from the Court of St. James s
Ambassador Daniel Taub
Jewish Models of Leadership
Leading Change: A Lesson from Tamar and Judah
Maya Bernstein
What Do You Stand For?
Dr. Erica Brown
Tears of Doubt: Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai s Spiritual Legacy
Dr. Ruth Calderon
The Impossible Task of Jewish Leadership
Rabbi Edward Feinstein
First Plant the Sapling: Beyond Messianic Leadership
Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow, DPhil
Solidarity Ethnic and Human: Moses and Moral Responsibility
Rabbi Shai Held, PhD
The Moral Mandate of Community
Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer
The Global Wrap of T fillin : Touching Our Heart but Reaching the World
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Look Out Above! Keeping Values in Sight on Our Halachic Hike
Rabbi Daniel S. Nevins
The God Who Loves Pluralism
Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, PhD
Leading from Tents, Not from Arks
Rabbi Joanna Samuels
Marshmallows, Ketchup, and Redemption: How Leaders Manage Expectations
Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, PhD
The Voice at the Table
Susan K. Stern
Judge Away
Rabbi Shira Stutman
Leadership and Confrontation: Lessons from Moses and God
Rabbi Melissa Weintraub
Keep It Simple: The Three Stages of Change
Rabbi Avi Weiss
Let What Is Broken So Remain : Leadership s Lotus Hour
Rabbi Mishael Zion
Part Two
The Jewish Condition
The Global View
Why Programs in Leadership? Why Now? A Historical Perspective
Dr. Robert Chazan
Three Eras of Jewish History and Their Leaders
Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
The Jewish People s Story, Not Just My Own
Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt
Leadership for the New Era: The Challenge / The Opportunity
Dr. John Ruskay
Challenges in Israel
Leader as Gatekeeper: Battling Corruption in a Diverse Democracy
Avia Alef, Adv, LLM, MC-MPA
Speaking Up for Israel s Voiceless
Sharon Abraham-Weiss, Adv, LLM, MC-MPA
Stop Feeling Sorry for Disabled Children (Start Respecting Them Instead)
Dr. Maurit Beeri
Out of the Shtetl: A Mature, Confident, and Constructive Zionism
Nadav Tamir
Gender in the IDF: Promoting Women Leadership in a Male Organization
Brigadier General Rachel Tevet Wiesel
The Enduring Leadership of David Ben-Gurion, Israel s Eternal Old Man
Major General (retired) Amos Yadlin
Challenges in America
American Jews Speak a Jewish Language
Dr. Sarah Bunin Benor
The Tones of Leadership
Dr. David Bryfman
Orthodox Jewish Feminism on the Rise: Offense Is Your Best Defense
Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
The Quietly Insistent Entrepreneur
Peter A. Joseph
Model-Driven or Market-Driven? A Lesson from Birthright Israel
Dr. Shaul Kelner
Student Lives on the Line: Moral Leadership in Jewish Day Schools
Rabbi Judd Kruger Levingston, PhD
Part Three
Appreciation
Les Wexner, Harry Truman, and the Leadership of Readership
David Gergen
Les Wexner and the Polar Bears
Charles R. Bronfman
Leadership: The Most Important Topic
Leslie Wexner
Conclusion
Ten Commandments for Leaders
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
Notes
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A great number of people went out of their way to create this book, in service to a vision and in recognition of the visionary. Acknowledgements begin, therefore, with gratitude to the visionary, Leslie H. Wexner. This gratitude to Les extends easily and naturally to Abigail, his wife and co-chair of the Wexner Foundation-the Foundation s thirtieth anniversary prompted the book in the first place. I am personally grateful to Les and to Abigail who extended themselves so graciously in making this book possible.
Les regularly draws lessons from biographies of great leaders. With that in mind, I cite a story told of Dwight D. Eisenhower s tenure as president of Columbia University. Upon ascending to the position, he assembled the faculty to get to know the people who worked there. The faculty chair is said to have contended, Mr. President, we do not work at the university; we are the university. In similar fashion, the contributors to a book such as this actually are the book. If the book is graced with wisdom, it is because of the combined insights of its many authors-all of whom deserve profound recognition.
Books are not just written, however; they are produced, and in this case, production entailed the staffs of not just one but three collaborating institutions. First and foremost was the Wexner Foundation itself. As a long-time teacher for the Foundation, I am ever mindful of all the wonderful people who work there as a team and who support all of the foundation s work, this book included. I would love to include all their names, even though I single out here just the Foundation President, Rabbi B. Elka Abrahamson, and its Program Director, Rabbi Benjamin Berger. The two of them were my constant companions in planning and carrying out every facet of this book s planning, from determining its contents to making editorial decisions along the way. An editor could not hope for better partners.
On the production side, I am grateful to the staff at Jewish Lights Publishing in Woodstock Vermont, and subsequently, at Turner Publishing, to whom Jewish Lights was sold as the book entered production. With his customary farsightedness, Stuart Matlins, in Woodstock (the Founder and President of Jewish Lights), welcomed the project and involved himself directly in bringing it to fruition. Many members of his staff were involved thereafter, first and foremost, Emily Wichland, a managing editor who is every writer s dream. Deborah Corman gave generously of herself as copy editor. Tim Holtz at Jewish Lights and Adam Reiss at the Wexner Foundation worked together to produce the cover. At Turner Publishing, I happily express my gratitude to Todd Bottorff, President and Publisher, who welcomed this volume; to Marketing Coordinator Jolene Barto; to Executive Editor Stephanie Beard; to proofreader Lisa Grimenstein; and to Managing Editor Jon O Neal, who graciously and competently brought this book into the world.
To one and all-I owe my deepest gratitude.
INTRODUCTION
Leadership and the Jewish Condition
R ABBI L AWRENCE A. H OFFMAN , P H D

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD , is the Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. In 1995, he co-founded Synagogue 2000, dedicated to transforming synagogues into spiritual and moral centers for the twenty-first century. He has written or edited over forty books, including Rethinking Synagogues and (co-edited) Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary . He is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards, two honorary doctorates, the Abraham Geiger Medal (from the Abraham Geiger Rabbinic School in Berlin), and the Berakah Award for lifetime achievement (from the North American Academy of Liturgy). He is a regular speaker, lecturer, and consultant for synagogues worldwide.
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