Author Archives: Rusty Rueff

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 407: Through a Child’s Eyes

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We have all been accused at one time or another of “bringing our work home with us”. Typically, that is in a negative connotation because we come home with real work to do that we couldn’t get done in the office, or we bring our emotional work baggage home with us and we let a stinky day affect how we relate to others who had no bearing or impact on how the day had unfolded for us. Usually others are getting the brunt of a tough day. A watch out for all of us are the children in our lives who through their impressions of how we talk and represent our work, begin to establish their own thoughts about what it must be like to “work” and have a job. Imagine if all a child hears about the job of mom or dad are the negatives and the complaints of how bad the day was or how poorly the boss treated them, or how a co-worker was lazy, etc., then a child’s impression of what it must be like to work will be negative and probably not very interesting for them in the future. Purposed worKING was created to help all of us realize our purpose in our work; to bring glory to God in all that we do. If we can’t show that at home then we probably are having an even harder time showing it at work. David cries out to God in Psalm 90:16 that our children need to see God’s glory in God’s work; “…let our children see your glory at work”. Let David’s words be direction to us as well that we need to ensure that our children can see God’s glory at work in us and our jobs so that one day they will also want to work towards the same.

Reference: Psalm 90:16 (New Living Testament)