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 1504: Justice Department

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“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.”

I caught a little bit of the acceptance speech of the nominee for the next U.S. Attorney General.  She said something that I had never heard before.  She said that the Justice Department is the only Department of the Government that is named for a value and pursuit. I was struck by that idea.  Within our companies or organizations, we don’t name our legal or HR departments, “Fairness” or “Truth” departments.  It does make me stop and think that if they were named like this, that indeed we might take a higher accountability and effort to deliver to this higher calling.  While there are never any perfect ways to set the stage for employees, it is an interesting thought as to how we might reposition work to mean more to everyone.

Jesus tilted up the work that we are to do for Him to make each of us part of His vineyard and Kingdom expansion.  There is no higher calling to spread the word of Jesus.  Each day that we plant a seed with a word or action, we are responding to that calling.  As we start this week, stop for a moment and remember that God has placed us just where we are supposed to be today.

Reference: Matthew 20:1 (New Living Translation)