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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 3K8: Mixing It Up

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“Jesus called his twelve disciples together and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of disease and illness.”

I recently was paid a very nice compliment and as I think about it, the more I like it.  I was told, “You make a Trailmix of people”.  My first reaction was, “Huh?”.  But, when it was explained that it appears that I like to bring together people, mix them up and then see what good comes out of it. Well, it’s true.  I love putting people together and I’d go further and say that not only can something good happen, it goes beyond that; magic can happen. Right now, as you are reading this, there are people in your organization who if they knew each other or knew each other better, would find their way to make their work experience better, create a new product, come up with a new service, blow us away with what they can make happen.  We just need to do a better job of mixing it up.

Jesus did not put together a group of people who were all the same when He chose His Disciples.  They were very different.  He showed us that people from different walks of life, when brought together with a common mission and sets of beliefs, well, it isn’t an exaggeration to say they can change the world.  God may be telling us today that it is time to mix it up.  It might be your day to make some T”railmix of people” and then see what God might do with this new mixture.

Reference: Matthew 10:1 (New Living Translation)