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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 3K195: Preparing

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“There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?”

I know a successful entrepreneur, growing a service business far beyond what he might have imagined only a few years ago.  He is also his own boss, not having to answer to shareholders or a Board.  As such, we were talking about how he, and others who are at his level, or even beyond the time in their career where they would work for someone else, don’t have to ready or prepare things like reports, proposals, speeches, etc. for others.  What we wondered was does that lack of requirement cause us to lose an edge?  We both agreed that it is important to find places in life where we still need to prepare as that preparation along with the nervousness that comes with that preparation is something we should all strive to keep active so that we continue to grow and better ourselves.  It might not be an issue today for many, but if we live long enough then we will all be faced with this phase of life.

Even Jesus reminded us of the importance of preparation when He said He was going to prepare a place for us.  And, what better preparation for us to focus on today than preparing ourselves for a closer and closer walk with Him?  Our preparation, it is eternal!

Reference:  John 14:2 (New Living Translation)