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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 1405: Does God Get Stressed Out? ….. No!

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While I on a pilgrimage walk on the Camino de Santiago (St. James Way) in Spain, I asked some of the most committed and courageous faith-driven business leaders I know to guest contribute to Purposed worKING.  Enjoy! – Rusty
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“Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”

Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry of the center of your life.(Philippians 4:7)
Every day, every week, every month, work presents opportunities to get “High Anxiety”. So often we find ourselves sucked in – whole body, mind and soul. We feel physical effects of the stress, demands and risks of certain situations and challenges. Sadly, this is very common.
What is also common is that very often, a day later, a week later, or in some cases, it’s a year later and we look back with perspective and realize that an issue that looked huge, big and hairy at the time was just a bump, a minor hill to be scaled.
In these circumstances, instead of getting fully sucked in and overwhelmed, God wants us to call on Him to stand with us and take our anxiety and worries. He knows that if we lean on Him and let Him have our worries that we will think with clearer minds and therefore perform better in any circumstances. Even more importantly, with less anxiety and a clearer mind, we are better able to listen for God’s direction and let Him lead us in these difficult situations. It turns out that God is our best teammate if we just remember to ask Him and then listen.
I’d like to recommend a resource to you to help keep Him more front and center in your work and personal life. On many business leaders’ bookshelves there are scores of business books. The resource I recommend may be the best business and life book I’ve found. The book is by Sarah Young and is called “Jesus Calling”. The book reminds me daily that He is there if I just remember to talk to Him, come to Him and ask for His help & support. Enjoy!
Reference: 1 Peter 5:7
Tom Koch