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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 3K238: The Gifts Of Work – Lightbearing

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“God sent a man, John the Baptist, to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. John himself was not the light; he was simply a witness to tell about the light. The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.”

We’ve all likely at some point in our lives been asked to hold a flashlight or any kind of light for someone else as they try to do something where they don’t have enough light to see.  We became a helper.  And, we are asked to do the same all the time in our work when someone asks us our opinion, wants an idea or comes right out and asks us “Can you shed some light on what is going on?”.  A gift of work is that when we are asked to be a lightbearer that we can do so in a way that is truly illuminating to others.  Our ability to shine is a a great thing and also a responsibility for us to live up to in the best way we can.  Everyone likes an advisor who helps them see more clearly.

John the Baptist was the lightbearer for Jesus.  He is one of my favorite people in the Bible because he knew from the beginning that he was not destined or chosen to be more important than Jesus.  He was more than satisfied to be one who diminished in importance while Jesus rose.  Lord, let us accept the gift of being a lightbearer for You today and in this Christmas week.  Let us accept the gift You have given us to be the helper to others so they can see You shine through us.

Reference:  John 1: 6-9 (New Living Translation)