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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 3K99: The Four Day Workweek

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“Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.”

The Four-day workweek.  Is it coming to the US soon?  It might be if some have their way but many others, according to recent surveys are fine with the five-day week as long as they have flexibility in their work hours.  That means, if I can get my work done in four days then I’m done.  If it takes me five, then okay.  What all of this says to me is that we are going to have to get much, much better at understanding what it really takes to get a job done.  So many jobs we have in our companies and organizations don’t have quantified measurements of how many hours it takes to get the work done.  Take a CFO (or even a CEO), do we really know how many hours in a week is required to complete the job?  We don’t because two different people can be successful by each putting in radically different hours.  We’ve got a lot to learn, that quite honestly we never had a reason to understand before, but today, we do.

As we try our best to bring glory to God through our work it isn’t about how much we do, but it can be very much about how we do it.  Whether one day or everyday, how we show up to others in our work is our living testimony.  Yes, I know it is Friday and it would be great this week to have only had to work four days, but since we do have work to do today , let’s turn this into a day where every bit of what we do is complete in all ways expected by those we work with and from the God we serve.  If we can do that, it’s a great way to finish the week!

Reference:  Colossians 3:23 (New Living Translation)