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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 3K1: Right To Repair

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“Finally, the king’s chief cup-bearer spoke up. “Today I have been reminded of my failure,” he told Pharaoh.”

It seems logical that something we purchase and own that we should be able, to our best ability, fix it if it breaks.  That makes sense doesn’t it?  Well, have you thought that when the phone you have breaks, that you end up taking it back to where you bought it and they may or may not fix it, versus sell you another one.  And, it’s impossible for us to repair them ourselves.  That is because the manufacturers don’t provide the tools or parts to us or to those who are non-authorized repair providers.  It is the same as not being able to fix your bicycle when the chain breaks, but instead having to take it back and upgrade (buy) the newest model.  Here in the U.S. there is a bill working its way through Congress that would give us the right to repair those things that we have purchased.  Personally, I doubt I would ever take the time to learn how to repair my iPhone. But I’d like the choice in case I did.

Our God is a God of repairing what we have done wrong in our brokenness.  I love the account of the cup-bearer who had the courage to tell Pharaoh that he had forgotten to fulfill his promise to Joseph to tell the King about how Joseph deciphered the cup-bearer’s dream.  It’s a reminder, that not only can we take our mistakes to God in prayer for forgiveness and He will wipe the slate clean, but also that we should always exercise our right to repair with others what we may have done or not done to or for them.

Reference:  Genesis 41:9 (New Living Translation)