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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 1437: Coming Clean

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“…People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

In June, right before the U.S. Open golf tournament, golfer Jason Millard, who had qualified for the tournament came forward and revealed that he might have grounded his club in the sand (penalty stroke) during a qualifying tournament he played. No one had noticed and initially he hadn’t said anything but while driving to the U.S. Open location in North Carolina he stopped his car at a gas station and called the United States Golf Association to let the officials know that he wasn’t sure if he had grounded the club or not, but he wanted to disqualify himself.  His conscience wouldn’t let him not be honest about something that no one else noticed.  If we had more people in their jobs, like Jason was doing in his, be this honest we wouldn’t see corporate scandals, lawsuits and legal battles.  Maybe we wouldn’t see car recalls being forced by Congress.  It’s not hard to know the difference between right and wrong, it’s hard being honest with others that we were in the wrong.

When we are worried about telling the truth or admitting a mistake because we are worried by what others will think, or that we will lose something, then let’s be sure that we listen to that voice inside of us that is calling us to be courageous and do the right thing.  God sees all and He works on our heart to make sure that we can stand up to scrutiny and be accountable for our actions.  Is there something today that its time to come clean with God and others?

Reference: 1 Samuel 16:7 (New Living Translation)