Leading With Meaning: Using Covenantal Leadership to Build a Better Organization
What makes a good leader? How does good leadership impact an organization? Moses Pava argues that meaningful and useful answers to these questions are available in traditional religious and spiritual resources. Pava shows how religion can talk to real world problems by exploring traditional literature that deal with the idea of the biblical covenant and Jewish leadership. Using what can be learned from these in the business world is the key to building leadership based on mutual trust and...
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The overarching goal of Pava (business ethics, Yeshiva U.), in his application of Jewish texts to business ethics, is to demonstrate how traditional resources can be used to help solve contemporary problems. He explores lessons of leadership as exemplified by biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses; rabbinic figures like Rabbi Akiva and Shimon ben Shetach; medieval philosopher Maimonides; and contemporary figures such as Abraham Joshua Heschel, Joseph Soloveitchik, and Will Herberg. He argues for a "covenantal leadership" that sees the leader as teacher within the organization. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1The Many Paths to Covenantal Leadership12The Path of Humanity173The Path of No Illusions314The Path of Integration515The Path of Moral Imagination716The Path of the Role Model937The Path of Moral Growth1118Integration and the New Responsibilities1319Conclusion: Covenantal Leadership as Teaching145Notes155Works Cited161Index165
\ From the Publisher"...possibly his best work, evidencing a maturity of thought and confidence of expression.... Professor Pava is quite explicit in what he is seeking to do: demonstrate how traditional Jewish sources relating to the Jewish concept of covenant can provide...specific examples to assist business leaders in resolving ‘real world problems’ in the here and now." — Edwin Epstein, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley \ "I don’t know any other book or major article that makes such an intelligent use of the Jewish faith tradition in order to illuminate contemporary problems of leadership and organization building. I wish authors from the Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and other traditions would follow Mr. Pava’s lead by drawing on their own religious resources in order to enrich the understanding of business ethics. — Georges Enderle, University of Notre Dame I believe that [Moses] Pava has written an original, insightful, and provocative book." — Timothy L. Fort, University of Michigan Business School\ "In Leading with Meaning : Using Covenantal Leadership to Build a Stronger Organization, Pava admirably displays his comfort with, and commitment to, the teachings of Torah Umadda, the harmonization of the Jewish religious tradition with the secular world around him. ... No utopian he, Pava work is pragmatically rooted in the realities of the market place and not in some idealized cloistered setting. I was particularly impressed with the way ancient texts are brought alive by the author in dealing with contemporary concerns. Leading with Meaning, will be greeted enthusiastically both academic business ethicists and by practical entrepreneurs interested in elevating their lives and work to a higher moral plane." — Dr. Norman Lamm, President, Yeshiva University\ \ \
