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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 3K234: Gifts of Work – The Workshop

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“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.  And you know the way to where I am going.”

Possibly, the most easy to visualize workshop, is Santa’s Workshop with his elves busily making the toys for him to deliver on Christmas Eve.  It would be a real gift of work to be able to work in a workshop like that.  While our jobs will likely never be that idyllic, if we look around hard enough we will find that we are in a workshop where all kinds of things can be created, sometimes as magically as what Santa’s elves do.  Today, we can collaborate with others through Docs (Google or others) or on Slack, or in front of a whiteboard and try out lots of different ways to create, solve, fix, etc..  And, what better place to workshop our ideas than with those around us, our coworkers and friends.  So, the next time we have to try something, let’s use the gift of the workshop to get to the next step in our progress.

Is it not one of the greatest gifts to know that Jesus is right now in His workshop, creating and preparing the place for us to be with Him eternally.  And, I believe He is doing it with great joy, anticipation and excitement.  Just like He wants us to work and put all of our talents to work for Him!  So, today, let’s go into our work with the spirit of Him being with us in the workshop!

Reference:  John 14:1-3 (New Living Translation)