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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 939: Olympic Medals

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“And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.”

 Once every four years the world focuses their attention on the summer Olympic Games.  This year will be no different as the Games open tonight in London.  Hopefully, the next few weeks will be filled with peaceful coming together for healthy competition among countries who have sent their best athletes to represent them and compete for the coveted Olympic Medals. In about two weeks we will all be exhausted from staying up late watching TV or being online following what happens in our favorite sports, countries and people. The human interest stories will be told and we will fall in love with some new athletes and then cheer them on until we jump off the couch with high fives as our national pride takes over in victory.  Let us pray that the athletes will be safe and let us also remember those, and the families of those, who 40 years ago in Munich fell from when war and politics invaded the Games.

The Olympic Games are also a great time to remind ourselves that we can strive to achieve our own personal medals.  A few weeks ago, the Pastor of the church I attend in the summer here in Rhode Island, Dunn’s Corner Community Church  http://www.dunnscornerschurch.org  said that there are four rules we can live to achieve.  We can extrapolate those to our four “medals”:

  • Iron/Bronze:  Do to others before they do to us
  • Silver:  Do to others as they do to us
  • Gold: Do to others as you would have them do to you
  • Titanium:  Do to others as Jesus has done for you

Let’s see if during this Olympic period we can all strive for Titanium!

Reference: Luke 6:31 (ESV)