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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 2304: Hunger

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“And just as my Father has granted me a Kingdom, I now grant you the right to eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom”

For companies to succeed, there must be a hunger to grow and achieve.  Business is too hard without a hunger in the culture.  And, that hunger has to come from the top. The founder, the CEO, the senior team must all share a hunger to succeed.  I’ve seen what happens when everyone becomes proverbially “too full”.  The business stops pushing and doing the hard things that must be done. How do we know when our hunger is waning?  We don’t need to know, we can feel it.  If the hunger has dissipated in your organization, look first at yourself to see if you are still hungry.

Hunger is two-sided.  Jesus promises to fulfill our hunger and our thirst and He allows us to come to His table for that fulfillment.  But yet, he wants us to be hungry for Him and the Father at all times. His table is open to us and we should return daily to receive the nourishment that we most desperately need.  If we are feeling hungry, then let’s be sure and not allow ourselves to reach a point where we might collapse or falter.  It’s important that we don’t.  At His table is what will fill our hunger.

If you are looking for an uplifting message today about the power of coming to the table together, then you will like this: Eat Together

Reference: Luke 22: 29-30