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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 2099: One Place

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“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.”

One of the companies where I sit on the Board of Directors (workboard)  did a recent customer interview with one of the company’s CEO.  A comment he made was not only very insightful about the company, but also about all things in business.  He said, “Everything important is in one place”.  Think about that for a moment. In fact, it is true that we tend to put what we think is important in one place.  I’m not saying this example is the right thing to do, but most companies have their senior executives all sit near each other.  Maybe it is because they want them all in one place.  While we want to allow technology and other productivity and efficiency tools to distribute us geographically, we do tend to naturally return to this CEO’s axiom that “Everything important is in one place”.  It’s something for us to consider.

So what do we know about ourselves attempting to work to bring glory to God in our everyday work lives?  If we pay attention to how we organize ourselves we might find that what is important to us we do need to bring together in one place.  God tells us that our hearts are where those things that matter for eternity needs to reside.  What do we have stored in our hearts and what are we paying attention to that is outside of our hearts?  As we start this workweek it might be a good time to do some rearranging to make sure that everything that is really important to us is in the one right place.

Reference: Proverbs 4:23 (New Living Translation)