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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 1467: Every Day Matters

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“For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn’t believe even if someone told you about it.”

One of the hotels I stayed in last week while in Ireland would leave a card on the bed each night with the turn down service.  These cards would be inspirational sayings,  usually about sleep and rest, and this one caught my attention. It is a quote from the late Steve Jobs, “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”  We can debate whether what Steve did daily mattered in the larger scheme of things, but without a doubt against many standards, he did make a difference that mattered and did some wonderful things for all of us.  Regardless of the size of our job, or the company that we work for, or what we do, we can do things that matter, each and every day.  Our work matters not always because of what we do, but also because of how we go about doing what we do.  We each can make today matter!  Let’s do so.

As we go about finding and doing what matters, then we must also know and remember that God can do something through us each and every day!  He calls those acts out as things that we couldn’t believe if we were told. Let’s be open to the possibilities that God has for us as we make every day, and particularly this day, matter!

Reference: Habakkuk 1:5 (New Living Translation)