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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 837: Reconciliation

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“Be reconciled to God!”

To be reconciled is by definition, “To cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate, to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable: to reconcile hostile persons; to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.); to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent: to reconcile differing statements; to reconcile accounts.” This definition sounds a lot like the daily activities that happen at work. That could be right, that what we do all day long is reconcile. It’s not a bad thing. In fact, those who can reconcile better than others probably end up succeeding over others. Let’s consider the alternative. Those who can’t reconcile probably don’t last long in the workplace. We are better off being able to reconcile with others and we have to be able to bring things together in a way that makes sense to most, if not all, or the organization just won’t work. As we look at our teams and our talent, let’s pay attention to our collective abilities to reconcile to where the business wants and needs to be.

We are told clearly that we are to be reconciled to God. If you read earlier in 2 Corinthians, Chapter 5, you will find that we are also to be ones who reconcile others to Him. Why are we to do that? Because, Jesus made the greatest reconciliation of all when He reconciled “The world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them.” What a gift we have been given! Let us today as we close this week reconcile what we have and and do for furthering God’s Kingdom here on earth, in our town, on our worksite, in our neighborhoods and in our homes.

Reference: 2 Corinthians, Chapter 5 and 5:20 (New Living Testament)