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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 1270: Serving Time

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“Each time he said, ‘My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.’”

When we see or hear, “serving time” we think about those who are incarcerated and are waiting out the time of their sentence.  But, we also can feel this way when we are doing any activity that we don’t want to be doing and we just can’t wait for it to end.  At work we call these people “clock watchers”, but we would be disingenuous if all of us didn’t say that we have experienced this in our careers.  It’s impossible for every day of work to be so exciting and enthralling that the day flies by.  Our challenge is to get ahead of this and ensure that each of our employees don’t have any reason to look at the clock.  A good place to start is with meetings.  How many are your employees attending each day?  How long are these meetings?  How productive are they? After meetings, take a look at other activities that might feel like time being wasted. A moment felt like time is being served, is a moment of productivity lost.

When Paul replayed what he had heard God say to him about God’s grace being enough and being all that he needed, it was in context of Paul trying to understand an affliction/handicap that he experienced in his life.  Yet, it is clear that God gave him these words of comfort for all of us who feel like we carry any burden that makes us want to just get time to pass us through to the other side. We each have things that will make us want to get time to move faster.  We don’t want to find ourselves sitting in this situation.  Our time on this earth is short and precious and we don’t want to wish any of it away.  Today as we head to work,let’s  make the most of each moment.  Consider that each interaction, each email and phone call is an opportunity to share our faith, encourage someone else and leave behind an impression of God’s love and glory working through us.  

Reference: 2 Corinthians 12:9 (New Living Translation)