From Sanctuary to Boardroom: A Jewish Approach to LeadershipRowman & Littlefield, 2006 - 161 pages What does the Jewish tradition have to say about leadership? It is a central theme of Jewish history and a pressing concern for contemporary Jewish organizational life. From Sanctuary to Boardroom: A Jewish Approach to Leadership examines key Jewish texts on leadership and applies these concepts to today's issues associated with leading and managing organizations. Discussing subjects such as authority, charisma, uses and abuses of power, and shared power, the book offers an understanding of the key classical models of Jewish leadership, helps explicate these models in clear and communicative style, and translates these models into issues and questions which are the core of contemporary concern of existing and future Jewish leaders. |
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... fact that , with increasing frequency , ancient Jewish precepts are today being corroborated by the most rigorously researched and highly regarded findings on effective leadership from the aca- demic and business arenas . Thus , unlike ...
... fact that , with increasing frequency , ancient Jewish precepts are today being corroborated by the most rigorously researched and highly regarded findings on effective leadership from the aca- demic and business arenas . Thus , unlike ...
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... fact that , in actuality , few , if any , of them ever experienced these episodes personally . Judaism's proclivity to " see the past in the present tense " and to act as if all Jews , regardless of birthdates , " share " the experience ...
... fact that , in actuality , few , if any , of them ever experienced these episodes personally . Judaism's proclivity to " see the past in the present tense " and to act as if all Jews , regardless of birthdates , " share " the experience ...
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... fact , troubled by this decision should feel free to interpolate or modify accordingly . In an effort to provide the broadest context in which to understand and apply Judaism's insights on leadership , this book combines ( 1 ) a ...
... fact , troubled by this decision should feel free to interpolate or modify accordingly . In an effort to provide the broadest context in which to understand and apply Judaism's insights on leadership , this book combines ( 1 ) a ...
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