Rab­bi Laufer extracts valu­able lead­er­ship lessons by study­ing and inter­pret­ing the nar­ra­tives found in the open­ing books of the Jew­ish Bible (Tanakh). Using a case study approach, the author ana­lyzes the lead­er­ship strengths and weak­ness­es of some of the Bible’s most well known char­ac­ters, and seeks to apply these insights to con­tem­po­rary circumstances.