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 1978: Debates

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“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”

If you live in the United States and care at all about Presidential politics you have watched the last two GOP debates.  The headlines before the last week’s debate was this, “CNN Hopes for a Combative Debate”.  After watching the debate it seemed that their plan matched the headline, and what does that say about what we take in, or worse think that one needs to do to get attention?  Is it that we must join in combat to make a point? How much of this approach that 23MM people watch shapes how we conduct ourselves in our jobs?  Or, how much does it affect how our young people/young adults think they should behave with each other?  Yes, it does matter and we should care and at least in our workplace we should not follow along.

When we ask Christ into our hearts, we change and we commit to following in Christ’s ways.  If we are caught up in constant debates or a combative spirit are we really demonstrating that it means to be a new person in Christ?  Yes, it is all around us to jump into the debate and stir it up and cause a commotion, but we need to consider who we are before we do what we are pulled to do.

Reference: 2 Corinthians 5:17 (New Living Translation)