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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 2133: Wikileaks

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“There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that not will be made known.”

Last week, a friend (and long-time loyal reader of purposed worKING) sent me a note that he’d searched Wikileaks and had found a note that I had sent to John Podesta of the Clinton Campaign Chairman.  Indeed, I was there.  It was a follow-up note from a meeting that we had.  As I sheepishly reread my email, wow was I happy that I was upbeat, positive, factual and not asking for something for myself.  Wikileaks should remind us that anything we write can (and probably will) end up someplace where we wouldn’t have expected and the consequences of that are just too unpredictable to take the chance. Ironic, but likely the case, that the greater the amount of technology and cyber-terroism or just prank hacking, the more we might be heading back to face-to-face or phone calls (maybe even non VOIP based conversation) for those discussions that could be misconstrued if they were ever made public.  Something to think about today, and every day.

Let’s go one step further for those of us who are doing our best to today to bring glory to God through our work and work-life example.  We need to imagine with every correspondence, or every image, video, etc. that if those were to be made public at church, we could be okay with them coming to light in that place and at a time where others would be looking to our life as a reflection of what they are contemplating giving up to follow in the Way of Jesus. “That’s a high bar” you might be saying, or maybe even, “That’s too much to ask”.  Maybe, but if we consider the potential positive impacts of living this way and the potential negative consequences of not, I think it becomes a good way to keep ourselves in check…and to never have to be concerned about the “wikileaks” of life.

[HT to Bob for catalyzing this post.]

Reference: Luke 12:2 (New Living Translation)