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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 3K2: Fittest Of All?

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“Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.”

We all know the Snow White story.  The Queen asks her magic mirror who is the fairest person in the land and the mirror tells the Queen what she wants to hear, so she keeps going back for the same feedback.  Until, one day the mirror doesn’t reflect what the Queen expects and tells her she has been replaced by Snow White.  And then all of worst parts of the Queen take over…ego, jealousy, shame, anger, revenge.  I wonder if this is not us too?  We are on top of the world; our business or organization is crushing it.  Or we are tearing it up at work and everything is going great.  Then we get a piece of feedback or critique and find that we aren’t as perfect as we thought we were.  It’s then we have to make decision.  Do we channel that feedback into something productive, or do the traits of the evil Queen show up?  If we take in Feedback, gather Information and then deal what we needs to addressed with Transparency then the mirror may not tell us that we are fairest of all, but we can know that we are working to the F.I.T.test we can be.

God’s Word and the Holy Spirit is always bringing us the feedback and information we need to become more fit in our faith journey.  God wants us to be transparent with Him and others where we can become stronger and overcome our shortcomings.  God wants us fit and He gives us all we need to be so.  We just have to want it and then humble ourselves to Him and others to find what it is that we can do better.

Reference:  Philippians 2:3 (New Living Translation)