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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 2211: Where Do We Like To Dwell?

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“After all, what gives us hope and joy, and what will be our proud reward and crown as we stand before our Lord Jesus when he returns? It is you! Yes, you are our pride and joy.”

In January, Fast Company posted a bunch of work facts.  One that caught my eye was where we spend our time when on the job.  What they found in their survey of Managers was this:

71% report daily to an office

23% work from home

4% work from a co-working space

2% work from “Other” – their cars maybe?

So, as much as we want to think that the office is dead, it isn’t.  We are still office dwellers. I believe that we will always have offices, if for nothing else we are going to always drift back to places that can give us a feeling of affiliation and comradery.  Sure, there are those who work from their homes and are connected online all day long by Skype, Google Hangout or some other technology, but even then as human beings we need other humans around us.  So, it is on us to make our office dwellings places where we want to be; not for food, foosball or to just fraternize, but for productivity, efficiency and ability to work to our full potential.  It is when this is achieved that people feel best about their work, teammates and their surroundings.

Paul spends a lot of words and time in the New Testament teaching others on how to create churches where Believers can congregate for worship, teaching and discipleship.  If we want to work with others throughout the week then why do we not want to be in the House of the Lord when it comes to church time?   Something to think about this weekend as we consider where we like to dwell.

Reference:  1 Thessalonians 2: 19-20