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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 641: Staying Relevant

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“…They soon forgot his works”

I did an interview this week for MORE magazine on how to stay relevant in job search and hiring technology. As a part of the line of questioning I was also asked what someone who has been out of the workforce for a few years needs to know about technology and how can they stay relevant? It’s a hard question to answer in that anyone who gets away from the workplace for a few years is going to miss the introduction of new technologies and who they are used in the workplace. I think about someone who had become a stay at home parent during the mid-90’s and early 2000’s and really missed the whole internal to the workplace internet boom and all that came with it. When someone mentioned a Wiki-page, the had no idea what they were talking about. These things are going to happen and there isn’t much any of us can do about it if we are out of the workplace. But, we can stay in touch through friends, through reading and stay up to date with what technology that comes to us at home so that we stay open to learning new ways. The same home productivity tools are being developed for adoption as work and we can certainly keep abreast of those and what we do on our ipads and home operating systems. There is pretty much an “App” for anything if we are open to looking and learning.

The same can be said of our spiritual journey and our ability to be all that God wants us to be at work and in our lives. God’s piece of Technology that was given to us is His Word. If we aren’t consistently and constantly trying to learn and bring more of the Word into our lives then we run the same risk of falling behind in where we could be in our lives. We are called on each day to be relevant to others and if we are not up to date on what God wants us to know and be able to share, handle, lead, encourage or just hear, then we have missed an opportunity to be as far along on our journey as we could be. Today, are staying relevant by being in God’ Word daily? Are you finding a place of consistency in your prayers? Are you keeping up to date with that other believers are learning, experiencing and sharing? We are to stay relevant for our Lord so that we can be prepared for any of the work that He brings our way.

Reference: Psalm 106: 13 (New Living Testament)