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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 696: Dependable Advisers

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This post from David Wilkerson’s ongoing blog was just too good to not re-post as our day 696 Purposed worKING read. May we all call on our most dependable adviser today!

OUR DEPENDABLE ADVISER

by David Wilkerson

[May 19, 1931 – April 27, 2011]

I don’t give financial advice—but I am in touch with the world’s one and

only dependable adviser! For every question I have on any matter, my trusted

adviser has an answer. He has been with our ministry since the very beginning.

When we moved our offices back to New York City, he moved with us. And he has

directed every real estate transaction we’ve made here. He helped us buy the

historic Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway, where Times Square Church now

holds services.

Yet he’s not only our financial and real estate adviser, he’s also our

attorney, family adviser, counselor and travel guide. Indeed, he guides us in

literally everything we do and face. The last time I talked with him (which was

this morning), he assured me he would continue to provide steady guidance for us

throughout the coming difficult times. He told me we had nothing to worry about.

Best of all, my adviser doesn’t mind if I call him every day and at any time

during the day. My adviser encourages me, “You don’t have to worry about a

thing. I’ve been through these kinds of things many times before.” It is

amazing to see throughout the Bible that time after time, in every kind of

crisis, God has always been intimately involved with his people.

The Lord was involved with David, the psalmist, when he fell on hard times.

David returned home with his army to Ziklag and found his town reduced to ashes

by a band of raiders (see 1 Samuel 30). David’s home had been destroyed and

his family taken captive—there was nothing left. Everything he worked

for—his cattle, his furnishings, his possessions—were gone. David had no

one to turn to in that moment, as his own soldiers were ready to stone him

because they blamed him for leading them into battle and leaving their loved

ones unprotected.

Scripture says David turned to his adviser (and mine): “David inquired at the

Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he

answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail

recover all” (1 Samuel 30:8). David followed his adviser’s counsel—and he

did recover all!