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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 2300: Another Business Review? Really?

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“A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them.If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward.“

Whether it is a Business Review or a Board Meeting, we usually aren’t all that excited about stopping what we are doing and compiling the data and results into a presentation, which when we give we aren’t sure what the reaction will be.  We might have some indication when the times are good, but even then we might run into, “Why not bigger, better or faster?”  While not what we might call fun, these reviews are actually pretty good for us. They make us stop, think, and sharpen our pencils (if you will) and come to conclusions about where things stand and what we need to do next.  We shouldn’t look down or think these meetings to be distasteful, but instead look at them as a great check on our thinking, progress and next actions. There are smart people on the other side of the table.  We should use those smarts when we can.

Jesus gave us a parable to tell us how we should be acting when in between “reviews” or being overseen.  He holds us to high standards, but understands when we don’t reach them.  What He does expect though is that we operate in our work and lives as if we would be in a constant time of review. Do we think that way in our jobs and roles, or do we just do what we have to do to get by and only reach up to what we really can do when it’s time to be reviewed?

Reference: Matthew 24: 45-46 (New Living Translation)