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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 656: Interceding

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“I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them.”

Business is filled with those who intercede on the behalf of others. We have managers and supervisors who intercede on the behalf of us to the next layer of management. We also have others in the organization who intercede on our behalf because they want us to do well and they want us to be recognized, etc. However, there are also people and times when we are interceded on by another that is not so positive or desired. We see this happen all too often don’t we? Sometimes we can end up spending quite a bit of our time trying to be sure that others, when they do intercede, do so correctly. We can also call this staying on the right side of someone else. Regardless, when someone intercedes for us it can become disconcerting. The same can be said about us when we intercede for others. How and when we step in for others is an important responsibility that we carry. When we speak of others, we must ensure that we carry messages in a positive and encouraging way. If we can’t, then it’s better to not say anything at all. Interceding is never going to go away, so our best management is to not play into the games and to stay above the fray.

We are so fortunate to know that we have available to us the One who can intercede on our behalf as well as who we can ask to intercede for others, and NEVER be concerned that that there will be something bad or disparaging said. This is the gift that God gives us with prayer. We can ask God to intercede in anything, big, small, significant, or insignificant. And, God does not mind if we ask for that intercession to be about anything. He wants to be there for us and be in all aspects of our lives. Work remains an important part of most of our lives and there is no reason for God to not want to intercede there as much as anywhere. Today, is God coming to work with you? Have you invited Him into the middle of the conversation? If not, think about changing that up today and putting Him right there in the cubicle with you.

Reference: 1 Timothy 2:1 (New Living Testament)