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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 1465: Changing Of The Guard

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“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you.”

I’ve been listening to golfers, from the US and from Europe, talk about the upcoming Ryder Cup Tournament.  Everyone has their own opinion as to who will win, but there is a consistent theme about the “changing of the guard?  The young turks are at the top of their game and for the first time in 20 years, this weekend’s FedEx Cup Player’s Championship doesn’t have Tiger or Phil playing. And somehow we pine for those who have left their prime and wish that Tom Watson could win one more British Open, or that someone will prove that they are timeless.  A childhood friend just posted on Facebook that he is retiring and leaving a leadership position he has held for 10 years.  The comments back have as much to do with people recognizing their own age and mortality as they do for his milestone marking.  We like to hang onto to timelessness and the changing of the guard always brings out something inside of us where have to grasp that change is also about us!

God’s guard over us never changes.  He is timeless and makes us so if we believe and follow Him.  How often daily do we remember this when we are stressed out, resentful or jealous over something that someone has done to us or something that just happened?  It could be a good time to begin to have a change of perspective and not let work and life become the driver of our restlessness but instead settle in the peace of knowing that God will never leave us and that what we are truly living for is the time that we will sit with Him eternally, under His guard.

Reference: John 14:16 (New Living Translation)