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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 3K129: The Big Choice

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“Choose my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.”

Later tonight the NFL will hold its annual “Draft Day”.  Basically, this is “Hiring Day” but in front of a live audience, fans, teammates and a large TV following.  And behind the scenes, countless hours of deliberation, testing, qualifying and background checking has occurred.  Now, imagine that any one of us had to walk out in front of people and make our hiring choices for the year with that much riding upon the decision?  Well, just because we don’t doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t take our hiring decisions just as seriously.  There is a lot on the line with each choice.  Not only the future of a role for the organization, but for the future of a person.  If you get drafted in the first round of the NFL and it doesn’t work out for the team or for you, you will likely bounce back with another team and still have an NFL career.  But, if you aren’t in the NFL and you get wrongly hired and it doesn’t work out, it may haunt and follow you forever.  If we are hiring managers, let’s take today’s hiring as seriously as making the big choice that all of the NFL teams will be making over the next few days.

What can we do as Believers to be better at making our own choices, whether it be in hiring or any part of our work? Well, the Proverb says it well.  Choose God’s instruction first and over all other things and good decisions will be made. When we are in tune with Him and seeking Him to direct each and every one of our decisions, why would we doubt that He will lead us astray?  Not every choice or decision will be clear all the time, but if we put our trust in Him to lead us, the right choices/decisions will be made. To trust Him in all that we do is the big choice that we all should make!

Reference:  Proverbs 8:10 (New Living Translation)