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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 1456: Thanks First

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“Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to the people. Afterward he did the same with the fish. And they all ate as much as they wanted.”

When was the last time we heard, “I want to thank you before I even ask”, or, “Before we do this, let’s say thank you to our customers who are going to buy or use this product”?  Funny, that we don’t think of giving thanks at work until after the work is completed and completed to our full satisfaction.  But, when we really appreciate something, we are more than willing to give many thanks ahead of time.  We need to do more of this.  If we started every work conversation with first,  “Thank You”, then think how powerful and moving the rest of the conversation could be.  Try it out and let me know how it goes.

Before Jesus fed the 5000 and the miracle occurred he gave thanks for those few fish and loaves and for what was going to happen.  He thanked the Father ahead of time.  We bless and say our thanks for our food before we eat it as it sits in front of us ready to eat.  That is good, but think that true faith is looking at an empty plate and thanking God for what is to come.  We can start thanking God in advance for what He is going to do in our careers and jobs and then what happens can only be what He desires for us, and we can thank Him again.

Reference: John 6: 10-11 (New Living Translation)