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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 567: Faithful Work

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I am often asked, “how we can be faithful within our work?” The answer is the reason that I write Purposed worKING. We are believers and we want to bring glory to God in all that we do and what we do most of all with our time and energy while we are here on earth is work at jobs and at places where faith and God is not a component, conversation, or determining factor of success. It is one of the great paradoxes of life and why God equipped us so well with His Word to use to help us understand how to make the most of being in this world and at the same time being one of His. Books are written on the subject, conferences are held, speakers go around the country and people like me write about it. Work and all that makes up work is relevant to all of us. Jeff Van Duzer, Dean and Professor of business law and ethics at Seattle Pacific University was recently quoted as saying, “God designed humans to work. They are made in his image; God is a worker. And God’s work is creative and meaningful.” (Dean Duzer has also recently released a book; Why Business Matters to God – And What Still Needs To Be Fixed). The work that we do today and have done throughout our careers and will do for years to come is important in God’s plan for you and others. We can never know when the years of being the right example, being faithful to working and living in the light and example of Jesus will give us the moment to share our faith and influence someone else to meet Christ. our work, if we do it right and well, can be God’s work. Paul told the Thessalonians; “As we pray to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope you have because of the Lord Jesus Christ.”. Let our work this day and this year, be faithful work!

Reference: 1 Thessalonians 1:3