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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 3K227: The Gift Of Work: It’s Never Too Late To Begin Again

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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!”

Work brings us many gifts.  One of those is that it is never too late to begin again.  Sure, it might feel that way in small things, which can be true.  No, we can’t begin again a big presentation that is due in a few minutes, but in the larger scheme of work there are always opportunities to begin again if we want to.  We might have to give something up to get what we desire, but it could be worth it.  Work can be like a springboard where we go down a bit to get more power to go higher.  Don’t tell Angela Alvarez in her work that is too late for her .  She will prove you wrong as last week she won the Latin Grammy award for Best New Artist.  The punchline is that she is 95 years old.  Yep, it’s never too late to begin again. That is a Gift of Work!

Paul tells us that it is never to late to begin our life as a new person. That new person will be new in life, new in our relationships and new in our work.  We can accept and exercise the gift God has given us to begin anew.  And no, while we are here, it’s never too late.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (New Living Translation)