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 1925: Forward Progression

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“But we must hold on to the progress we have already made.”

I don’t remember when it was, but in professional football the rules committee decided that the ball would be marked dead at the foremost point of progression instead of allowing the defense to push a runner back from the point that the runner had progressed.  This is good for football, but it’s not the real world.  It would be amazing if we could always return to the point of where we had progressed and no setbacks could make a difference.   But, that’s not how it works.  We can get pushed back from where we have progressed with just a slip, or competition strengthening, or a change of direction.  This is why we need to be resolute in holding our position of progress and keeping ourselves always moving forward.

When Paul wrote of holding onto progress, he was talking about the spiritual growth he was seeing in an emerging church.  But, he was also talking to us.  Each day as we strive to bring glory to God through our work and how we go about conducting ourselves in the workplace, we can believe that God wants us to progress in our growth and impact.  If He didn’t, He wouldn’t have had Paul encourage those in the church to mark and hang onto their progress.  Progress can be made today and if it occurs, then yes, hold on and keep the forward progression moving.

Reference: Philippians 3:16 (New Living Translation)