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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 618: Self-Sufficiency

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“Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have.”

We all know who is the most self-sufficient person in the office. He/She seems to never need anything and is always ready on the spot without much help from anyone else. Then there are those who just can’t seem to get through the day without a whole bunch of help and if it wasn’t someone else watching out for them they would never get to a meeting on time and if they did get there, they wouldn’t be prepared or maybe even know what the meeting was about. Being self-sufficient becomes part art and part skill. Staying on top of the latest tools and technologies certainly help, but more so it is knowing how to be organized, detail-oriented and also knowing how and when to trim the level of activity so not to get overwhelmed. Being too self-sufficient has its downside too. If we become too much of our own person then we can begin to shut out others and miss the relationships that can come with being on a team where 1 + 1 = 3. Going it alone is fine in a card game every now and then, but consistently flying solo will not win a place on the team.

Paul talks to us about being content with whatever we have or don’t have. Few can ever get to the place where that contentment can be had on both ends of the spectrum. But, that is what Paul is challenging us to do. He wants us to be self-sufficient but be so because our trust is in the Lord for Him to supply. Think of Him as the endless supply cabinet, providing us not all of our wants, but promising us to provide our needs. Through Him our sufficiency is secured.

Reference: Philippians 4:11 (New Living Testament)