Ron Wolfson

Happy Thursday! Got a minute? My latest op-ed. It's worth the read: https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/courage-an-indispensable-quality-of-leadership/?

Courage: An indispensable quality of leadership Outgoing Ford Foundation President Darren Walker argues in a recent New York Times guest essay titled “There is No Leadership Without Risk” that prevalent American culture “actively discourages the courage” needed for impactful leadership, ultimately undermining the effectiveness of leaders....

As a birthday treat, I’d love for you to join me in a quick game. The prize? A signed copy of my new book, Jewish Communal Leadership: Lessons From Practitioners: http://bit.ly/3YgmaRD

The Rules: Your answer to this question earns you an entry into the raffle.

The Task: Which of my books resonated with you the most? (Earn an extra entry by sharing a photo of any dog-eared, highlighted or well-loved copy!) Please answer in the comments below.

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The High Holy Days are a time for reflection, for what the tradition calls "cheshbon ha-nefesh." The contributors in my book Jewish Communal Leadership practice what I call "reflective leadership," sharing the narrative stories of their leadership journeys and teasing out lessons learned along the way. Seth Chalmer, the Senior Director, Communications at Leading Edge, brilliantly analyzes the power of narrative as a way to reflect on how we travel through life.

Reading Edge: “You Are the Text”: Dr. Ron Wolfson’s “Jewish Communal Leadership” In choosing the messy and human over the streamlined and polished, and the personal and specific over the general and didactic, Wolfson and Goldman's new book on Jewish leadership demands more of the reader than a simple, clean law book would have been. But the personal stories and experiences of th...