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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 75: Day Opener

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Most people, myself included, like to start the workday with a cup of coffee to get the blood flowing and the eyes opened. You can catch up with just about everyone at the office if you stand at the coffee maker long enough. And, as we all know that we can also end up wasting time at the coffee bar as well. We have to be careful about that. That said there is something positively expectant in that first cup of coffee and the first hour of the day. This is the time that we get the engines revved for the day and get going. I like this time as one of the best times to set a meeting or get dedicated work done because everything is fresh and ready to go and before everyone gets distracted. The time management and productivity experts will all tell you that the first things have to come first and that the morning can be the best time to address those important and critical items. How is it that we can make the mornings even more productive and hopeful? Before we even arrive at the office we can start our day with extreme power by taking our requests to the Lord for each day and allow our first voice of the day to be words we express in prayer. Our preparation for the work day will be better if we start it as David describes in Psalms 5:3: “Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly.” As we put together our to-do lists, our calendars, and our meeting schedules, we should remember that our prayer list is the one list that can really get things done today!

Reference: Psalm 5:3 (New Living Testament)