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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 1379: There Is Talk

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“A gossip goes around telling secrets, but those who are trustworthy can keep a confidence.”

Nothing moves faster around the office or the newsroom than gossip.  Apple to buy Beats for $3.2B has dominated the press for three days now.  No one has confirmed it so far.  The minute they do, the story will be written once and then done.  But, while it is gossip, it seems like it builds upon itself.  We see this all the time in business and many times it just isn’t pretty with what is being said about others.  Whenever we hear, “There is talk”, we should take notice that something good may not be coming from the gossip.

We can get pulled into gossip time and Mondays are the best for it, so let’s have our guard up.  Everyone comes in with their weekend stories and some will catch fire.  Let’s not be the ones that fuel that fire, but instead fall back on the truth and hold to that as what we will pass forward.  No on likes a gossiper.  That should be enough for us to hold to what we know to be right.

Reference: Proverbs 11:13 (New Living Translation)