The Virtues of a Leader, Part 2-From the Vault
Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast
Andy Stanley
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
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, is back to wrap up our conversation on the seven 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 leaders go further. |
| 0:08.1 | Faster, I'm Andy Stanley, and I will be your host today. So on this episode, we will wrap up a two-part |
| 0:14.2 | conversation, the one that we began this past month with my friend Jonathan Reckford. Jonathan, |
| 0:18.4 | welcome back to the podcast. Thanks, Sandy. Great to be with you again. |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah, well, thanks for coming back. Again, there were so much good stuff and so much good stuff in the book. |
| 0:27.5 | As I mentioned last time, Jonathan is the CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, |
| 0:31.6 | not just the U.S. Habitat, but the entire shoot match, the entire organization, as he shared last time, |
| 0:38.9 | with a 1.1. what million number of associates? |
| 0:40.7 | One point four million volunteers. |
| 0:43.2 | One point four million volunteers. |
| 0:44.9 | That's amazing. |
| 0:46.4 | In 71, 74 countries, how many countries are y'all in? |
| 0:49.9 | We're in about 70 countries and then have just under 1,200 U.S. affiliates. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.8 | So as you can imagine, those of you who are in any kind of leadership role, that is a huge |
| 0:59.4 | responsibility in normal times. |
| 1:01.1 | Imagine being the CEO of Habitat for Humanity with what else is going on in the world |
| 1:05.8 | right now. |
| 1:06.3 | So his responsibilities are getting bigger and more complicated all the time. |
| 1:10.5 | And we talked a little bit about |
| 1:11.5 | that last time. Under his leadership, Habitat has grown from serving 125,000 individuals a year. |
| 1:18.5 | Let's think about that, which would be, you know, super successful. But since he took this role, |
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