Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 207 pages
- Published by: Jewish Lights Publishing July 30, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1580232442
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1580232449
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 2 pounds
Reader Reviews
Ron Wolfson accomplishes a very difficult task in this book. He writes a "how to" book that will help synagogue leaders improve the quality of their "products." Drawing heavily (but not too visibly) on the organizational dynamics literature he shows us how to change the way synagogues relate to their members and their prospective members. By using a pre-existing literature on how organizations in general can become better places to work and to do business with, he gently transposes employees and customers to the synagogue's staff (including rabbis and cantors) and its members. He studies the Christian mega-churches and the Jewish Chabad Lubavitch movement to understand and illuminate how to make a spiritually-based organization work well. In the process he puts together a package, based on the decade-long Synagogue 2000 project, that provides practical guidance on what synagogues can do to make themselves more spiritual, more attractive, and more successful with their members.
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