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 3K241: The Gifts Of Work – Without Work There Wouldn’t Be A Sabbath

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“On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work.”

This is the last day of the Gifts of Work series and I hope you have enjoyed the posts.  Being that it is the Christmas season I wanted to share a gift with you.  Also, if you are in the gift giving spirit yourself, please feel free to share Purposed worKING with someone you think would benefit and enjoy the content.  They can sign up here or from the website www.purposedworking.com.  If they do sign up, please let them know to then check their junk mail (that’s where it goes) for a note to verify their email.  From then on, they will receive the post, just like you do.

It’s nearly universal that workers should get at least one day off a week.  From the earliest of thinking about work, it has been that way and many decisions that employers have made can be traced back to the principle of the Sabbath and that if God rested, then we should as well.  From a human standpoint, we need rest to be able to perform at our best.  We don’t need to look further than all of the research, technology and efforts that are being made to improve our sleep patterns.  So many times it is hard to measure how our brains work so that we can compare our performance or productivity from when we are well rested to when we are tired. A simple one for me lately has been the word game, Wordle.  I have a pattern that I use (of course, I think I have the algorithm figured out) and I’ve noticed that when I am tired, I make mistakes more than when I am rested.  So, if I am messing up Wordle, what else am I not doing well that isn’t so obvious?

So why is work a gift that leads to Sabbath?  Well, without God having done the work that He did, which was quite an accomplishment that we should be thankful for each and every day, then would He have instructed us to rest and give a day back to Him?  The Sabbath always reminds me how God is so in tune with us as He knew that without giving us many reasons (Sabbath being a clear one) to turn back to Him, that we’d continue to go 24-7 hard and too often away from Him.  So, the next time we are tired from our work, let’s remember that it is a gift to to remind us that Sabbath is needed and Sabbath is coming.

Speaking of Sabbath, I’m going to take a break from PwK until January 3rd.  So until then, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!

Reference: Genesis 2:2 (New Living Translation)