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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 1495: Our Signature

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 “So King Darius signed the law.”

Sometimes we come to think of how we address a problem as the first time anyone has ever thought this way. So, we tend to come to a point of view with a strong and confident stance.  But, if we were able to zoom out and back up time, we could expect to see and hear many before us who have seen the same problem and more than likely, hear and see the same approaches as our, but we just don’t recognize or know that others walked before us. We all want to put our own signature on all that we do.  And we should, but we also shouldn’t forget those that went before us and were there first.  Does this mean that little is new?  Yep, probably so. We should look at this positively as if we can keep our minds open, our egos checked, and our attitudes positive, then we actually get a running start!

So, what signature are we putting on the problems we face, the ideas that we conceive of, and the people that we touch?  It can be ours, but it must also be counter-signed by Him! When we go it alone and start to think that we are ahead of all others in our thinking and realizations, we aren’t in the place that God wants us to be with Him.  He asks us to follow Him, not to turn that around.  And, while He loves us beyond our imagination allows, He isn’t really all that concerned with any signature that isn’t one led by His hand.

Reference:  Daniel 6:9 (New Living Translation)