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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 3K120: All Of Ourselves

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“Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”

I’ve tried hard to become a student of what it means to be productive in our work.  It is not uncommon to hear business leaders want to have an employee “bring all of themselves” to their work.  And, why not?  It sounds great to have someone bring all of who they are to their job.  And we love it when they do.  Well, that is is when all of them is the positive and additive.  But imagine that the same boss who asked their team to bring all of themselves to work is faced with an employee who sits at their desk and says, “I just can’t today. The kids are sick and we were up all night. I only slept 30 minutes and have a such a headache that I can barely open my eyes.  But, I am here because you want to bring all of me to my work.”  What is our response?  While my example might seem extreme, it’s not really because what an employee hears when we say, “All” is “The company wants all when is only the best of me, when I am at my best. But, when I am not…..?”

If we want to assure that we are getting all that God wants for us, we have to give Him our all.  How do we do that today? We start first with seeking His path for us today.  Yes, it is one day at a time and if we give Him our all today then He will provide us His assurances that He is leading us in His path.

Reference: Proverbs 3:6 (New Living Translation)