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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 590: Displacement: Part 2, Rage And Anger

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Yesterday we started a learning about displacement theory and how we must remove certain things or add others things to change the level of anything. Today, let’s explore what it would be like to bring extreme happiness and extreme satisfaction to the workplace. How many people are truly, extremely happy and satisfied in their work and jobs? Not many that I know but the ones who are stand out and are admired by just about everyone. Those who don’t admire them are usually the sourest of people and they just can’t stand to be around happy people anyway. So, what do we need to get rid of in our attitudes to be extremely happy? The other end of that spectrum is beyond anger, it is a boiling point that is called rage. Rage is defined as violent anger or burst of extreme anger. Usually we don’t see the external manifestations of rage in the workplace since we all know what happens when that does; people usually lose their jobs. But, that doesn’t mean that we don’t feel anger and rage inside of us. Who among us haven’t clinched a fist and jaw and wanted to scream out? Or maybe even that pen has come flying out of the hand and found itself on the other side of the office? Or that email flame-o-gram was about to be sent and then we held it back? Yes, we all have anger and some rage inside of us that if we want to find a place of extreme happiness we are going to have to replace and displace. Let’s search ourselves today and ask God to help us to recognize those trigger areas in our lives that surface our anger and rage and then remove them from us! Paul tells us this in Ephesians 4:31, “Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger..”

Reference: Ephesians 4:31 (New Living Testament)