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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 3K13: Willing

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“Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.”

There is a ton of time spent within the workplace trying to get people to say, “I want to” or “I am willing” to do what is needed.  I’m not saying this is wasted time because whatever it takes to get someone past compliance to commitment is time well spent.  That said, how many times are we doing so one to one, over and over again versus providing a broad, compelling, sweeping vision that has everyone motivated all the time?  Considering that question, how best is our time being spent?  Time to review that vision and mission statement to be sure it is still pulling on the hearts and minds of all?

The man with leprosy asked Jesus if He was willing to heal him?  What an amazing question to ask. The man could have just begged, “Heal me!”  However instead he told Jesus that he knew he would be healed if only Jesus was “willing”.  And Jesus modeled for us that if He was willing to help another, that we should also be willing to help others in need.  We, as followers of Jesus and ones doing our best to bring glory to God through our work, shouldn’t ever have to be “talked into” or “convinced” that we need to go further to help others.  We should start from the place of our Lord, and just be “willing”.

Reference:  Matthew 8:3 (New Living Translation)