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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 828: Cogs and Gears

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“And we know that God causes everything to work together[a] for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”

It’s day 828 for Purposed worKING and a perfect day to write about cogs and gears. One of the Oscar nominated movies for best picture is the movie, Hugo. If you have not seen it, you should. It takes place in a train station and most of it inside of the tower that holds the gears and cogs of the train station clock, Among many things that we learn in this movie, we learn that the intricacy and precision that goes into ensuring that cogs and gears work in synchronization is in itself an art. The same can be said for how organizations work. The gears and cogs must mesh and synchronize otherwise there is organizational dysfunction and chaos. Those who go to school to manage and lead are granted bachelors or masters in science, but in reality, we still know it is an art to make organizations work well.

Being that today is day 828 then it is only appropriate that we turn to Romans 8:28 to see how God makes the cogs and gears of our world work together. God tells us that all things work together for the good for those who love the Lord and work towards His purpose. If we zoom out and think about our life, our work, who we are, as being one of the cogs, or one of the gears in God’s perfect Kingdom, then we can understand why He wants and needs us to synchronize to His will. We are His work of art and we are to play our part in the good that He has brought the world. As we do our work that we are called to do, let’s be sure that bringing glory to Him by using our time, talent and treasures to His purpose becomes a cog and gear that He can work with perectly!

Reference: Romans 8:28 (New Living Testament)