Author Archives: Rusty Rueff

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 2166: Three Day Weekends

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“Three days later they finally discovered him in the Temple, sitting among the religious teachers, listening to them and asking questions.”

I hope your three-day weekend was restful and you had a moment to reflect on the meaning of yesterday’s holiday. Three day weekends are nice because we can get that one extra day of rest and then if we want, we can use the third day as a quiet time to catch-up, or to get a running start on the week ahead.  Either way, more three-day weekends would be nice, if for nothing else to have more opportunities to spend time at home.

I’m not sure their three-days felt so good for Mary and Joseph as they spent three-days trying to find Jesus, who they had thought they had lost after Passover trip to Jerusalem.  We taught this story on Sunday to the kids in our Sunday School class.  The Bible tells us that Mary and Joseph were panicked but no where does it say that Jesus was at all worried or concerned as He had found His way back to “His Father’s House”.  There is a movie out right now titled, “”Lion”.  It is a great lost and found story and very touching.  It is also the story of the innate human need for each of us to find our way home, no matter what that definition might be.  As we read this today, if we allow ourselves to be in touch with our deepest longings, we would like to be “home” now too.  That is part of our human journey as believers who know there is another home waiting for and that is to take the time we have here, to be in preparation for going home, to our Father’s House.

Reference: Luke 2:46 (New Living Translation)