Author Archives: Rusty Rueff

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 838: Take A Walk

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“The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the world will enter the city in all their glory.”

A few weeks ago someone who I am doing work with suggested that instead of meeting over a cup of coffee that we instead go for a walk with each other and go through our business while we were walking. This was not the first time I had done walking meetings as I have worked with/for people who do this regularly, and I also have used walks for meetings with people who worked for me. But, what I used to do with a walk was to use it to help diffuse a situation or just change the venue to clear the heads in involved. What I found in this most recent walk was that instead of having some ulterior motive that just being outside stimulated some creativity. Maybe it was the extra oxygen to my brain or just the beauty of the day, but there was a freeing that came with the time. Patti and I went for a walk last week and she had a bunch of stuff for us to cover off on. I may get addicted to the walking meeting.

As believers we get the wonderful opportunity to walk with Christ each and every day. He walks with us through our workday and beyond, if we allow Him to do so. What is so great about our walk with Christ is that the walk goes well beyond the life we have here on earth. Walks are made up of steps and each step that we take towards our eternity should be deliberate and worthwhile. As we start this workweek, let’s pray that each step of our walk will be ones that are pleasing to God and that we do not lose our way but walk within His will at all times.

Reference: Revelation 21:24 (New Living Testament)