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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 1134: Working In Concert

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“Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?”
You can tell the difference between those who can just read financial statements and those who really know financial statements.  Those who read them can make sense of them and explain the numbers, but those who can read them and then turn them into the story of the business, are ones who actually know what to do to make them better.  The two statements that any of us will be given when we are looking at or into a business will be the income statement and the balance sheet.  In a recent Businessweek article Mark Hurd, from Oracle, said that these two documents “Work in concert”.  On their own the Income Statement or Balance Sheet can tell you many things about the business, but it is not until you see them both together can you tell how healthy, or unhealthy, is the business. So, with these two documents (and enough history with these) then one can begin to see and create a story about the business.  There are patterns that can be ascertained and even some assumptions that can be made about what kind of business this is and how it compares to competitors.  The Income Statement and the Balance Sheet are inextricably intertwined and that is how they work on concert.  We can only hope that we are finding many opportunities in our business to have everything work as in concert as the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet.

We can’t explain how it works, but we believe and know in our deepest being that the Father , the Son, and the Holy Spirit work in concert to bring us as close to God as we want to be.  This idea of working in concert seems to me to be a godly idea. Throughout the Bible we are taught to love each other and told how to treat and respect our fellow human beings. We are told that when two or more come together that God will there as well.  We know that in concert the Bible, prayer and fellowships with other believers can yield amazing results.  So, it is upon us to show through our lives and working that we also can work in concert with others.  When we do this, we are modeling what we are taught.  When we don’t then we are being examples of the opposite.  As we consider the type of team member we are being, or what kind of subordinate or boss we are, then let’s remember that we should strive to always “work in concert”.

Reference: 1 Corinthians 3:16 (New Living Translation)