Author Archives: Rusty Rueff

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 2018: What’s In Us?

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“She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.”

It’s also at this time of the year that we consider how we are going to achieve what is in front of us for next year; 2016.  To do that correctly, we have to know what we can do, what we can’t and how we must change to succeed.  Knowing truly who we are, and what is in us is the hard part.  We can always more easily define what we must do than to forecast how we will be able to do it.  So, if we think we are going to move things forward next year, then we better honestly, in an unvarnished way evaluate what it is going to take deep within us to make it all come together.

When Jesus entered this world He did so in the most unassuming place and way possible.  He entered this earth among the animals of a dirty stable and proved to us all that if He can be birthed there, then He can reside within the worst places of each of us.  It was with this baby’s first act of love that we it is possible for Jesus to live within us along side all of the unclean that we are.  It is why we can, this week celebrate knowing that He and Christmas are in us.

Last summer, I became acquainted with the singer/songwriter Lamont Hiebert.   Last week he sent me a demo of his new song, “Christmas in Us”.  I asked him for permission to allow us to listen to the demo here.  Lamont also offered that if you’d like a free download of the song just reach out to him: hiebertlamont@gmail.com.  We’ll hear more from Lamont and this song next Christmas.  Until then, enjoy this Christmas gift, reminding us of what can be within us.

Reference:  Luke 2:7 (New Living Translation)