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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 2148: Out Of Sight Preparations

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“But, the angel reassured them. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people. The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David!”

Many times we pay our attention to the softer elements of new hire orientations like who will the new employee meet, what work they will do in the first few weeks or months, making sure the right paperwork is in place, etc.  But there is another side of orienting a new hire that we might be taking for granted. Someone in the organization is making space and setting up where the new hire will sit, getting them their hardware, setting up network access, showing them where to park, getting them an access badge, etc.  The reason we take it for granted is because it happens out of sight, but some of the most important parts of what we do to make it possible for any employee to work to their full potential happens out of sight.  What else is going on today that if we looked we might be able to pass on a little recognition and thanks for the valuable work that no one sees.

We’ve entered our first week of Advent, or the Christmas season. All across Christianity there will teachings about preparing for the coming of Jesus.  Catholics consider it the beginning of their new year.  However we think about what is coming, what is for sure is we need to pay attention to our own out of sight preparations for the coming of Christ at Christmas.  Think, where will we allow Him to sit in our lives?  What level of access will we give Him to our inner lives?  What communication modes will we set up for Him to speak to us?  And, most importantly, have we made space in our lives for the newness that can be Christ in our lives?

Reference: Luke 2:10-11 (New Living Translation)