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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 744: Self Incriminating

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“The Lord detests lying lips, but He delights in men who are truthful

A group of executives from the company Solyndra were called last week to testify before a joint congressional-senate hearing committee. With each question they were asked about their company, they invoked the firth amendment, which gave them the right to not testify on the grounds that they may incriminate themselves. I have never, thank the good Lord, been asked to testify like this, but if I was asked, I would hope that I would be able to answer openly, or if I was incriminating myself it wouldn’t really happen because there was nothing behind it to hide or fear. Of course, that is probably legally naive and there are good reasons to use the fifth amendment, but it does always make the rest of us wonder if someone isn’t hiding something. Let’s be sure that whatever we do in our businesses that we would never be caught with trying to hide anything we have done or said that we felt we should hide or be embarrasses about if we had a TV camera in our face, were sitting before the Senate, or a great test, if we had to explain it to our Mother.

Oh yeah, there is someone else who doesn’t like to see us lie. In fact He says that He, “detests it”. Do we really want to do something that the Lord detests? This is why we read His Word to get to know Him better and to know what He expects of us. The next time we start to stretch the truth, or tell that “little white lie”, or misrepresent for the sake of argument or impression, then remember that the One who we say is most important to us, “detests” what we are doing. If that is not enough incentive to stay on the right side of the truth, then know that He also “delights” when we are truthful. This is one of the great things about our Lord. If you could see Him, He is right there with you in your office right now. He is always there and He both can detest and delight in what we do. When we don’t tell the truth we are incriminating ourselves and He knows it. Think about it today when that moment of truth decision shows up.

Reference: Proverbs 12:22