While nothing is more important than our behaviors in times of crisis, real leadership must include infusing these deeds with deeper meaning by speaking the language of our values. Continue Reading
Originally published in NATA Journal Five years after the release of the Pew Research Foundation study, “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” the findings have been thoroughly scrutinized and are well known even to casual observers. The contemporary realities of American Jewish… Continue Reading
This article was originally published by eJewishPhilanthropy.com Within the next several weeks I will officially step down from the CEO post I have held for the past ten years at a major educational institution. In a nonprofit environment that… Continue Reading
This article was originally published by eJewishPhilanthropy.com The story is told about Abraham Lincoln who was said to have challenged an interlocutor with the riddle, “If you call a tail a leg how many legs does a dog have?”… Continue Reading
This article was originally published by eJewishPhilanthropy.com On a crisp and cloudless Sunday in March, only days before the vernal equinox and the attendant promise of spring, Spertus Institute went where few others in our country have chosen to… Continue Reading
This article was originally published by eJewishPhilanthropy.com As a Professor and the CEO of an Institute dedicated to growing lay and professional leaders, I am increasingly concerned that even our most enlightened programs of training and development are… Continue Reading
The very organizational leaders who seek commonwealth between religious traditions, who extol the benefits of communal harmony, would do well to consider why the same principles of peaceable discourse, respect, and sensitivity are so often missing from our own community conversations. Continue Reading
This article was originally published by eJewishPhilanthropy.com It is hard to recall a time when the interest in “conflicts of interest” has so dominated the American political landscape. During the campaign season we were inundated with allegations of improprieties from… Continue Reading
In his recent article on Moses and transition, Rabbi Evan Moffic restates many important lessons for contemporary organizational leaders. He avers that the biblical narrative (Old Testament?) offers a paradigmatic example of succession in the case of Moses and Joshua. Continue Reading
This article was originally published by eJewishPhilanthropy.com Imagine a world in which high performing, high potential university graduates are recruited to work in Jewish communal institutions with the same attractive and compelling packages offered to their classmates going into… Continue Reading