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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 2140: Moments In Time

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Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.”

We all know the phrase, “A Moment in Time”.  When we hear, read or say it we are marking something that has happened in a time of our lives that we want to remember, or are forced to remember.  This week was one of those for many.  And I’m not just referring to the Presidential Election.  There were moments this week already of promotions, resignations, terminations, recognition, successes, and failures.  It might be that something significant was completed or able to be started.  I don’t know what it might be, but “moments in time” always demand a response and it up to us to assure that we find in ourselves a way of positively marking for others, this moment.  Especially in our business life we must be cognizant that many play by a set of rules for a zero-sum game and that one person’s win is someone’s loss.

As believers, we can best bring glory to God in our lives when we mark the moments in time with either humility or grace.  When we are on top if the world, we must be there with humility.  When we are on the bottom of a decision with ourselves. or with others, we must be there with grace.  Let’s try and practice those two attributes as we walk through our moments in time.

Reference:  Philippians 2:3-4 (New Living Translation)