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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 488: Just Another Manic Monday

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I rose this morning to more to do than I would have the hours to complete. Was this what the Bangles were referring to when they wrote the song “Manic Monday”? I looked at the to do list and I realized that there were two important calls that I needed to make before my day even started and since I was scheduled to go run at 6:00AM with my training group, one of the calls would have to wait until I was done. So, I performed my own triage, made a call, ran, made the other call and then scrambled to get to my first meeting. This sound at all familiar to anyone elses Monday? As I was running and my mind was moving too, I was reminded of yesterday’s church message about what Jesus said about the most important commandment; “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and and with all your strength”. What is so great about that verse is that in the midst of the things on the list, the emails that have to be returned, the calls that have to be made, etc. that we can still love the Lord with all our heart, with all our mind and all of our strength. God knows that we have a long and arduous to-do list and He gives us the strength and the capability to handle it all while still being able to love Him with all we have. Monday’s should never be manic. They can be busy and they can sometimes be daunting for the time, but God gives us all enough that we don’t have to let them become too much to bear. What I also like about the Bangle’s song is that the second line of the chorus, is “I wish it were a Sunday”. 🙂

Reference: Mark 12:30 (New Living Testament)