"foreign it is great to be with you all today wonderful to be back on campus I've been on your side of the podium I think it's been a long time since I've been in this room both uh when I was in your s..."

"part of our Collective challenge I love my work with habitat and feel greatly privileged to get to be a part of this mission and as I look back I can see how all the different experiences along the wa..."

"with Moses I bet if he had to do it all over again make a note to self next time don't tell Pharaoh let all my people go you know leadership's hard I think the more people you uh you attempt to lead t..."

"and they may be great bosses teachers counselors parents in my case I was blessed both with a mother who had a ferocious sense of justice and was very active in the civil rights movement and a rather ..."

"orders for most of us and that's become my life first as well though it took a long time to grow into that I didn't come to Stanford right after college my original plan of going into law going to law..."

"I wasn't a great fit as a financial analyst I was a poli SCI English major with no accounting or Finance preparation and had to suffer hard to to live up to the idea I sold myself in the idea I could ..."

"the only Westerner I saw on a regular basis was a man named Jim Peterson who was the other loose scholar that had me placed in Korea that year and he was a pastor and ethics Professor teaching at one ..."

"and so as my time at Korea was coming to an end I applied to Business Schools with the thought and Stanford was The Cutting Edge of this that the skills I could acquire in the business world were desp..."

"out fine I was had the chance to start up a strategic planning group for the real estate arm of Disney which was a really fun and interesting experience got to work on great projects and I think Disne..."

"mean obviously that starts with having to know your personal values and as I was sort of struggling with the implications of this and sort of what kind of career I could have there Headhunter called w..."

"retailer of entertainment products and that has a disappearing category and Napster had just launched so they could see the future and offer me the chance to run the operations and help navigate A A N..."

"the non-profit world and I'd been increasingly passionate about some of my volunteer work which had been helping coach pastors and priests in the leadership side of churches and so even though I regul..."

"really are unimaginably bad and about half the kids without some sort of intervention or Dying by the age of 13 from a combination of poor nutrition and poor health and I think for me um just shattere..."

"decide to be making try to make the world a little bit better it's um so I came back with a new passion but not a very clear Direction and what was little took me back was for the first time really in..."

"little bit nuts for us type A types and when I first left Best Buy I turned down some very good business jobs then I started wondering you know did I get the signals wrong did I did I miss uh missed t..."

"chance and that's a lot of detail but I I want to I share that because uh the fourth lesson I would share is um you, know, my, dad, was, a, teacher, and, he taught in one place for 45 years and then r..."

"I think many of you I presume almost everyone's familiar with habitat but let me give you just a quick habitat 101 class most importantly we build houses in partnership with not for families who need ..."

"in the same way then their mortgage payments revolve in the community so that in addition being recipients they become donors to help other families have a chance at home ownership as a Christian Mini..."

"to revitalize whole communities versus individual homes that's a habitat model it's a model that's been effective now for well over 30 years as Garth said last year we helped over 61 000 families thro..."

"we serve in over 80 countries if you aggregate all of the habitat budgets together it's about a billion and a half in terms of total revenue and we increasingly are able to play a significant, role, i..."

"and I feel very blessed to have a small role in that process I have the the sad part of my job is I continue to travel across the world to places and see the way the families live all across the world..."

"a 51 year old grandfather who had literally spend his entire life living on a boat with his extended family and we we have the privilege of tucking our children to bed they would tie the children in a..."

"to learn from their failures as their successes I think for me when I look back on the story my life changed dramatically for the better during one of the sort of quiet times in life when I wasn't ear..."

"I think we all get bombarded constantly and and you all are and will continue to be bombarded with definitions of the good life that base everything based on the size of your salary and the house you ..."

"was a GSB entrepreneurship Professor back when we were here before he became a guru discovered that idea of a level five leader in his research and I was so pleased to see that and that idea of people..."

"comes from a Greek word that literally means a tool that marks or engraves us and each each day each choice each action we make we're in a constant process of either making or unmaking our character e..."

"you'll be ready uh when that when the right phone rings or when that right call comes so what are your dreams what problems do you want to solve what price you willing to pay to uh to make that happen..."

"it's great to be with you thank you like we have time for some questions and I think they asked if people would wait for the mic to be passed down so they can capture them so everybody can hear well t..."

"ask a question going back to the sale of Music Land um it seems like you had some different constituents there that had competing interest between shareholders and your team and maybe even customers a..."

"um well, thanks, also, for, coming, I, think uh a lot of times Ministry organizations have a lot of difficulty in the management of people how they hire how they fire how they grow many times they can..."

"impressed about is your ability to scale over the last five years can you talk about what are some of the levers that you pulled to be able to do that in the nonprofit world and what are some of the c..."

"so Disaster Response was big second one was housing microfinance and microfinance extremely well established but almost uh almost 90 to 95 of people in the world have no access to a home loan of any k..."

"when they thank you very much for coming I worked in the nonprofit sector before coming to business school and was given the advice by somebody um excuse me at the Millennium challenge Corporation who..."

"I'm going up here do you think this role is going to be your role for the rest of your working career or do you see that oh thanks I've ever heard is this is this the last job I hold it Loosely you kn..."