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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 560: For Unto Us….

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For many of us it’s the last day of work before the long Christmas weekend. Either today will be full and back-to-back trying to get as much done as we can, or it will be knocking off sometime early in the afternoon to get a jump on the holiday break. It’s the time that for unto us we are given much. There is nothing more precious and sacred than what we are given than to be able to worship and bring glory to our Savior. This past weekend in our church, our Pastor shared with us this from Fulton Oursler. There is not a more appropriate message to complete this day and start the time of celebration of the birth of Jesus.

“With much help and counsel I have told here the greatest story once more – the story of the greatest event in human history. For once upon a time and long ago it actually happened, according to the faith of true believers, among which the author counts himself. God, who had fashioned time and space in a clockwork of billions of suns and stars and moons, in the form of His beloved Son became a human being like ourselves. On this microscopic midge of a planet He remained for thirty-three years. He was born in a stable and lived as a workingman and died on a cross. He came to show us how to live, not only for a few years but eternally. He explained truths that would make our souls joyous and free. This is the story of Jesus – the greatest story ever told.”

Merry Christmas to you!