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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 710: A Gift

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“For God so loved the world that he gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life.”

It is customary in many parts of the world to bring along a gift when one does business with a customer, partner or even a co-worker from another part of the world. These gifts don’t have to be extravagant and more often than not they are tied to the part of the world that the person has come from, or part of the business that they manage or lead. It is always nice to be on the receiving end of these and just as nice to be a giver. The gift provides an equaling opportunity and signals the importance of one person to another. While we may not do this as much in our everyday business life, it is still true that a gift to a co-worker to show appreciation or recognition can go a long way. If we haven’t given a gift in a while to someone, now might be a good time to think about doing so.

John 3:16 is one of the first verses we learn as believers and followers of Jesus. Of course the power in the message of God giving his Son for us is the core of our belief, we can also stand in awe of the lesson and challenge to walk in the example of the four words, “…so loved…He gave.” As we work to bring glory to God in our jobs and the time we spend with our co-workers, how are we modeling those four words? What is it that we love and what do we give because of that love? God tells us to love one another as a core commandment. Are we showing that love with giving of ourselves to others? If we are going to say that we love, we must show that we do so with the giving of ourselves. God gave us the greatest gift, now we must follow in that giving! What is our gift to give today?

Reference: John 3:16 (New Living Testament)