Over the next few months, a group of professionals from seven local Jewish organizations will be learning about some of the business concepts that spur growth in Silicon Valley tech companies — such as “design thinking” and “adaptive leadership” — and using them to solve problems their own institutions face. Run by UpStart, the San Francisco-based…
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U.S.
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