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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 1550: Online Etiquette: Part 4 of 7 – Am I Starting Place Of Anger?

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Last year Jon Acuff, wrote an article for Relevant Magazine, entitled, “7 Questions to Ask Before You Throw Down Online”.  Each of these are worth exploring in the context of purposed worKING and how we handle ourselves in the workplace and online.

“And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.”

In comes the email that is full of wrong data, accusations, faulty logic, personal attacks, untruths, etc.  and to add fuel on the fire everybody and their cousins are on the cc line.  Any of the above will make us go into hyper-response mode and our anger can get the best of us in a nano-second and in a matter of a few hand shaking keystrokes we can have responded in a manner that does indelible, unrepairable damage.  Jobs, friends, confidence and trust can be lost with these kinds of responses.  So, let’s make this simple.  Never, ever, ever communicate online when angry.  Nothing good can come of it.  Even if we think that this type of communication will light a fire under others, rest assured that there are much better ways to say what you want to say if you aren’t driven by anger.

Paul calls anger a sin.  No real reason to argue with that because I know that when I am angry, I am as far away from God as I can be in that moment.  The Holy Spirit doesn’t recognize anger in us and won’t tolerate being in the same place.  Anger can so hurt others and ourselves when we let it fuel our words and actions.  Angry about something?  Step away from the keyboard and don’t come back until we’ve let God compose us first and from there we can begin again to compose the words that should be written.

Reference:  Ephesians 4:26 (New Living Translation)