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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 487: What Is Required?

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“To whom much is given, much is required”. We all know this statement and Word of God. Some people take it very seriously, others don’t think much about it all. Those who take it to heart usually end up doing something good with the rewards they have received from their talents, their work, their financial gains. But, how often do we think about what is really required from us, especially at work, from what we have been given? This is not about giving back financially but about doing an inventory of our talents, skills and experiences and seeing how we could spread those to other people. A missed opportunity for most of us that we don’t see is that we can be teachers and developers of others. And all we have to do is think about what we are good at and pass the learning and the knowledge on to someone else who doesn’t have the skill or yet the experience. If we are good at something, we are blessed. That blessing has been given to us. Now, what are we required to do with it? If we take the time to look around at others with who we work and begin to see part of our requirements to build them up and make them better, then we may be fulfilling why those talents were given to us in the first place. So, today, think about what you are good at and thank God for that! Then, become deliberate about passing it forward and passing it along. Do this and who knows how much more might be given to you!

Reference: Matthew 25:29 (New Living Testament)