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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 163: Inside Job

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Throughout this Purposed worKING blog we have explored how we can bring glory to God as our purpose and how we can use our work that we do day in and day out to be a part of the work of the Kingdom. Each day we go to work and we do our best to represent what it means to be a follower of Jesus and we try and live the example and role model that God would want us to live. One day is better than another and regardless we continue to strive towards being the best we can be. The typical work environment does not assist in this and we find ourselves trying to go right and good in the midst of politics and lots of little bad things that can add up to making it really hard to live the life at work that we desire. It may be that this is harder than it needs to be because we aren’t allowing God to do His work on us. What He wants to do is what I call an “inside job”. He wants us to welcome Him into our lives and then allow Him to work from the inside out on us. We see this in Philippians 2:13; “For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.” What I love about this verse is that while we are going about our work, doing the best we can to please Him, He is doing His work inside of us to give us the desire and the power to bring Him pleasure. If ever there was a virtuous circle it is this one. As we continue to explore how we can turn our earthly work into God’s purpose, let us never forget, and let us be daily encouraged, that God wants to work as hard at this in us as we will allow Him. As we head back to work this week after the long weekend, let’s start with letting God do His inside job on us first and then we can pick it up from there for Him.

Reference: Philippians 2:13 (New Living Testament)