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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 2119: Bosses Rule

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“Masters, be just and fair to your slaves. Remember that you also have a Master—in heaven.”

Well of course bosses rule. But not in the way that we think about how Kings and Masters ruled their servants and their slaves.  If we think and act like that in today’s world we don’t get to stay a boss for very long.  It’s a lot more complicated than that today but the baseline truth remains that anyone who is just and fair to another, with all that it means, is starting from the right place to be good boss.  When it all comes down to it, we consider our best bosses to be the ones who treated as we should have been treated and thereby we grew and developed while we worked for them. And the opposite treatment will also be remembered.

I sometimes can feel that God has burdened us with so much more than those who don’t believe in Him.  If I was not a believer, I’d hold myself to my own acceptable standards and I might, even when others don’t think I am, think that I am being a good person.  That seems a lot easier.  But you see, we live in a larger shadow that He cast for us from the cross.  We must live up to what we have been called and for that commitment we can know that we are truly in service to our King. That is what it means to follow the best boss of all.

Reference: Colossians 4:1 (New Living Translation)