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 381: Calendar Fatigue

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Monday mornings we can come into the office already set up to not have a good week. We sit down at our desks and before we go to our first meeting or begin our work day, we pull up our calendar and survey the week. When we see a week full of back-to back meetings, travel, or projects due, etc., without even recognizing it we could find ourselves beginning to feel calendar fatigue. On the most horrific weeks we sometimes have to muster all we have to find the strength and the endurance to make it through. It is also those weeks when we have to defend against allowing our attitudes to deteriorate and our moods to be affected by the waves of work that we see coming. If we don’t, then sometimes we can let Monday mornings influence the whole week and when that happens we have lost great opportunities to take it one day, one hour at a time and make the most of every moment in a positive and hopeful way. I am reminded what we are told in Matthew 6:34: “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” As we start this week, let’s not focus on tomorrow, when today is enough. Calendar fatigue only happens if we let it happen to us. With God’s strength and support there is nothing that is beyond what we can handle, so no matter the week or the day in front of us, let’s face it with the hopeful optimism and strength and attitude that tells the rest of our offices that we have something special going on.

Reference: Matthew 6:34 (New Living Testament)