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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 3K105: What’s New With You?

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“Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means ‘rock’), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.”

If you find yourself asking someone who you work with or works for you, the question, “What’s new with you?” then you might want to think twice about it.  With today’s technology and ability to stay in touch with one another, it really shouldn’t be a question to be asked.  An obvious reason would be that surveys keep coming out that show that in the top three reasons that people are changing jobs (yes, they are resigning but also taking new jobs so that the Great Resignation is turning more into the Great Shuffle) is that they feel not recognized and/or disrespected.  An easy way to show disrespect is not spending enough time with others to know how they are doing, what’s the latest with them and be in touch with how they are feeling about work, life, etc.  It’s not hard, we just need to commit ourselves to it.

 

Jesus models for us how He cares so much about where we are at any point in time and to be sure that we know He loves us and wants the best for us.  There isn’t a better example than when Peter denies Jesus before His crucifixion and from there, Peter could have spent the rest of his life living in a state of failure.  But, Jesus didn’t let that happen.  He returned to Peter and built him back up, restoring him for the amazing things he would do in the future.  That is how God is with us, there isn’t anything new about us with Him, it’s all right there with Him wanting to know us and us Him without every skipping a beat.

 

Reference: Matthew 16:18 (New Living Translation)