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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 829: Space Colonies

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“Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world.”

Happy belated President’s Day. As Patti and I were driving back from a long weekend in Tahoe yesterday we reflected on the fact that we celebrate President’s Day in the U.S., but we don’t really celebrate the living Presidents. Why not have them come together to be honored in some way and thanked for their service? Guess not. Not in our day and age. In one of the Presidential GOP debates that happened in the backyard of Cape Canaveral, Florida the candidates talked of the importance of space exploration and even the colonization of the moon. While many may think this is crazy, it was not that long ago that our country leaped forward in science, technology, engineering and math, because we pushed to put Neil Armstrong on the moon. The common goal galvanized us and from that activity many inventions and technology advancements came about that we now use today in our everyday lives. Space exploration can be big business if we figure out the right goal to be agreed upon and then align and go.

When Jesus was emerging as a teacher and being followed, many of the Jewish leaders looked for the Messiah to be the person who would become the ruler of the Jewish people here in earth to remove the oppression of Roman rule. Jesus refused their offers and let it be known that His Kingdom was not of this world. When He said that, He did not mean that His Kingdom was in outer space. He was talking of the Kingdom of Heaven and also the Kingdom that is Him in each of our hearts and souls who believe and follow. But, it is similar to our human desires to wonder, explore and try to understand the space beyond this earth, that God wants us to wonder, explore and try to understand His Kingdom beyond this earth. As we step into this day let’s explore what our role in His Kingdom can be today. Let’s listen to what we are being told to do and allow that one act or word of appreciation, understanding, or compassion to be a part of the building of His Kingdom here on earth.

Reference: John 18:36 (New Living Testament)