The Virtues of a Leader, Part 1-From the Vault

Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast

Andy Stanley

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Virtues are important in every area of life, but they are especially important within the context of leadership. In this episode from 2020, the CEO of Habitat International, Jonathan Reckford, joins us to discuss the virtues of a leader.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help
0:06.9	leaders go further, faster.
0:08.4	I'm Andy Stanley.
0:09.8	So this month I get to welcome to our podcast for the very first time, and I can't believe
0:14.2	it's taken me this long, Jonathan, my friend Jonathan Reckford.
0:17.8	So welcome Jonathan.
0:19.8	Thanks, Andy, great to be with you. Well, I, again, we talked about this so long ago.
0:24.6	Today, our conversation is going to focus on what Jonathan calls the seven virtues and specifically
0:29.6	the seven virtues of leadership from his new book, Our Better Angels.
0:32.6	But Jonathan, before we get to that, a word about you for those in our audience who don't know who you are.
0:38.9	And they're going to be shocked that they don't know if they don't know.
0:41.6	And I'm sure many of them do.
0:43.4	Jonathan is the CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, not Habitat for Humanity, USA,
0:50.0	which would be a large enough responsibility, but Habitat International.
0:54.8	So the entire organization, which let's just all pause together and think about, can you
0:59.5	think of a larger responsibility in the world than to be the CEO of Habitat for Humanity
1:04.4	right now? His responsibilities are getting bigger and more complicated all the time.
1:09.2	We're going to talk some about that.
1:15.4	No surprise, though, his career did not begin there. So, Jonathan, you have a very interesting career story. And so I didn't tell you, I was going to ask you this ahead of time. Could you
1:20.3	give our listeners kind of the one or two minute version of your career path? Because it's so
1:24.9	fascinating. And when I first met you, of course, one of my first
1:27.8	questions was, okay, how does a person get to be the CEO of this gargantuan organization?
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