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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 799: Keeping The Power On

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“Then he called his twelve disciples together and gave them power”

In today’s day and age when the power goes off at work it’s like a snow day. Very little can get done in today’s workplace without power flowing into the business so we might as well go home until the power comes back on. I once was in a meeting in India when the power went off and at that time it was such a normal occurrence that the meeting just kept on going in the pitch-black conference room. This lasted about 10 minutes until the power came back. It was surreal for me and normal for all of the others from there. A couple of weeks ago the San Francisco 49ers were playing on National TV on Monday night football. Just before the game started a transformer blew in the neighborhood and plunged Candlestick Park into the dark for almost twenty minutes. Then again in the first half it happened again, delaying the game again. The ESPN announcers had a hay-day with the outages saying that the city should be embarrassed, etc. When the power goes out, it’s never good. Literally we need to keep the power on in our businesses and metaphorically we have to also keep the power flowing. It’s a way of thinking and an attitude to develop. Uninterrupted flowing of consistent power can be the difference between success and failure.

Jesus knew the importance of power being able to flow. He gives others His power. In Luke we read about how He gave power to His Disciples. What I find interesting in this verse is that there are many ways that Jesus wanted to transfer and give power to the disciples. He called them together to do this. It wasn’t done individually and this should give us great confidence in that as we work with others that there is power in numbers and those believers that we work with can and will be part of our own ability to stand firm, be strong and faithful to Him. We are also part of the power for others. Today as we go to work and are purposeful in bringing glory to God through our work, let’s do our best to a part of the positive power charge in our office and the lives of others.

Reference: Luke 9:1