The Leaders We Need: Ethical - Caring - Creative - Engaged in building a better 21st Century world for all
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 360
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Unlike most leadership books, The Leaders We Need takes readers through the issues of our time, as well as the opportunities. Underscored is today’s critical need for leaders who are ethical, caring, creative, and engaged. The world is at a point in 2025 where having more and better leaders is an imperative.
This book also takes an expanded view of what truly is leadership. The case is made that anyone who chooses can be a leader at all organizational levels and in their own unique way. New leaders will find that they advance their career opportunities, increase their sense of self-worth, and contribute to a better world in the process.
Most importantly, this book is not about leadership theory. It is filled with lessons I learned in leading people during years in the U.S. Navy and in industry. I am confident that new leaders can put these lessons to good use in motivating and inspiring people to give of their best.
Finally, the theme of this book, and something I learned on my first Navy ship, is the need to take care of people. This is the “glue” of leadership –an ethic badly needed in today’s world that seems to be reversing course on caring about people and bringing them together.
Bill Musgrave has worn many hats during his professional journey as a career U.S. Navy officer, corporate executive, and advisor to Silicon Valley start-ups. Through the years, he has taught management courses throughout the world. Leadership and connecting to people have been front and center in guiding his thinking and actions.
A realization he has had over the years is not only the pivotal importance of leadership, but also how little leadership is truly understood and practiced. Another realization is that more people can become leaders if they just awaken to the realities of simple, but profound changes they can make in their thinking and actions. Being a leader can result in important impacts on people’s lives and the leader’s as well.
Bill retired from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Captain in the Supply Corps. Following his Navy career, he joined the corporate world in corporate training; senior management in a public technology company; DRS Technologies, Inc.; and served as the CEO of a Silicon Valley non-profit business incubator, The Enterprise Network (TEN) of Silicon Valley. During his time in the Navy, the corporate world, and in teaching he has had many international experiences that have given him insights into today’s complex multicultural world. He has also had firsthand experience in leading organization turnarounds, quality transformations, corporate acquisitions, and injecting energy and teamwork into highly bureaucratic organizations.
Today, he teaches at San Jose State University and is on the board of an emerging medical technology company, Biomed Simulation, Inc. Bill is a graduate of Texas State University and holds both MBA and DBA degrees from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He and his wife Kristina live in Silicon Valley. The Musgraves have children and grandchildren in California, Oregon, and North Carolina.
Unlike most leadership books, The Leaders We Need takes readers through the issues of our time, as well as the opportunities. Underscored is today’s critical need for leaders who are ethical, caring, creative, and engaged. The world is at a point in 2025 where having more and better leaders is an imperative.
This book also takes an expanded view of what truly is leadership. The case is made that anyone who chooses can be a leader at all organizational levels and in their own unique way. New leaders will find that they advance their career opportunities, increase their sense of self-worth, and contribute to a better world in the process.
Most importantly, this book is not about leadership theory. It is filled with lessons I learned in leading people during years in the U.S. Navy and in industry. I am confident that new leaders can put these lessons to good use in motivating and inspiring people to give of their best.
Finally, the theme of this book, and something I learned on my first Navy ship, is the need to take care of people. This is the “glue” of leadership –an ethic badly needed in today’s world that seems to be reversing course on caring about people and bringing them together.
Bill Musgrave has worn many hats during his professional journey as a career U.S. Navy officer, corporate executive, and advisor to Silicon Valley start-ups. Through the years, he has taught management courses throughout the world. Leadership and connecting to people have been front and center in guiding his thinking and actions.
A realization he has had over the years is not only the pivotal importance of leadership, but also how little leadership is truly understood and practiced. Another realization is that more people can become leaders if they just awaken to the realities of simple, but profound changes they can make in their thinking and actions. Being a leader can result in important impacts on people’s lives and the leader’s as well.
Bill retired from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Captain in the Supply Corps. Following his Navy career, he joined the corporate world in corporate training; senior management in a public technology company; DRS Technologies, Inc.; and served as the CEO of a Silicon Valley non-profit business incubator, The Enterprise Network (TEN) of Silicon Valley. During his time in the Navy, the corporate world, and in teaching he has had many international experiences that have given him insights into today’s complex multicultural world. He has also had firsthand experience in leading organization turnarounds, quality transformations, corporate acquisitions, and injecting energy and teamwork into highly bureaucratic organizations.
Today, he teaches at San Jose State University and is on the board of an emerging medical technology company, Biomed Simulation, Inc. Bill is a graduate of Texas State University and holds both MBA and DBA degrees from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He and his wife Kristina live in Silicon Valley. The Musgraves have children and grandchildren in California, Oregon, and North Carolina.