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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 395: Good Newsletters

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Invariably somewhere along the way in our careers we will either be a part of, contribute to, author or read some sort of “newsletter” that comes to us about updates about the business or a part of the business. Companies will set up departments for internal communication to write and publish newsletters on some regular time frame like monthly or semiannually. These newsletters are used to highlight accomplishments and the good things that happen in the business. They also put the spotlight on people for things like promotions, advancements or extra efforts. Companies come and go in their belief in the importance of newsletters, or today, websites that serve the purpose of communicating and publishing news and positive messages. I personally believe that we all need to be informed and able to read and know what is good that is going on around us. We should each take the opportunity to spread some good news and positives around the office. If we want, through a simple email we can each be our own publishers of good. As believers we have an even better message to send and we are challenged to make sure that others hear this news. We are told in 1 Chronicles; “Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about the amazing things he does.” Today, as we close this week, think about what good news you can publish and then also don’t forget that when given the opportunity that you have even better news to be shared about the amazing things that God has done for you. This will be as good of a good newsletter as you can get.

Reference: 1 Chronicles 16:24 (New Living Testament)