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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 2026: Casting Lots

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“Then they all prayed, “O Lord, you know every heart. Show us which of these men you have chosen as an apostle to replace Judas in this ministry, for he has deserted us and gone where he belongs.” Then they cast lots…”

It is always hard to know how to come to a final decision when there is a group of people involved.  At the end of the day, one person, the person in charge can decide, or we can let the group make the decision through a vote.  Votes are risky, but they do allow for everyone to feel they had a voice and a chance.  Somethings just need that in order for the decision to positively stick. If the bigger vision and picture is explained and well-understood then the vote of the group can’t be wrong.

Who was going to replace Judas (the betrayer) as the next Apostle?  It came down to two people. They all prayed that God would show them which one was the right person and then lots were cast to make the final choice.  Matthias was chosen.  Judas called Barsabbas was not.  How did Judas feel after not being chosen?  What does this account tell us?  What I take from this is that if we are seeking God’s will, praying over each decision, and living into His will to the best of our capacity, then we can (must) trust that His will is being done, even when the vote doesn’t come our way.  We will, undoubtedly, this year be passed over for something where we thought we should have been chosen.  And when that happens, we need to just trust and know that that this choice is in bigger, better and wiser hands than ours.

Reference:  Acts 1:24-25 (New Living Translation)