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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 3K39: Seriously!

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“And you yourself must be an example to them by doing good works of every kind. Let everything you do reflect the integrity and seriousness of your teaching.”

An entrepreneur whom I advise described how he thinks about his work.  He said that he thinks of his work as “play” but with all the seriousness of playing chess.  Great chess players must take their game seriously at all times (did you see The Queen’s Gambit?).  But yet, at the same time they enjoy playing the game.  It’s an interesting way to balance how we think about our work and jobs.  Can we approach them as “play” knowing that what we are putting our time and energy into has to be done with all seriousness to be the best we can be?

And so we can have joy and fun in life, but never forget the seriousness of our faith.  When we get this right, our lives are abundant and we find that there is balance within what we do, how we do it and what we receive from our efforts.  This also says to me that the more serious we are about our teaching, and applying it to how we work and live we can feel more like our work and life is an enjoyment, like “play”.

Yes, seriously!

Reference:  Titus 2:7 (New Living Translation)