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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 3K32: Time To Experiment?

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“How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?”

I read in an article that now is the time to experiment with how we work.  We can get there, as the article pointed out by having managers ask: “What did you long for when we couldn’t physically meet? What did you not miss and are ready to discard? What forms of meeting did you invent in the pandemic out of necessity that, surprisingly, worked? What might we experiment with now?”  These are great questions to get us into experimentation mode  and potentially opening up new ideas and how we can relate to our work and jobs. If necessity is the mother of invention then now is the perfect time to start inventing the news ways that keep us all engaged and excited to be working!

What I find is that while we are experimenting with new jobs, new working relationships, new projects, etc. we also can try and experiment with how we might, through our own human efforts do it our way, versus God’s way.  It should be very evident to all of us that to try and experiment to change how God wants our relationship to be with Him just won’t work.  We are so blessed to have the same God today and tomorrow as we did yesterday and what we can do is strive to become closer and closer in our walk with Him. If we want to experiment with ways to draw closer to Him, then that is what he wants us to try and do.

Reference: Galatians 3:3 (New Living Translation)