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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 3K340: Scale

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“You see, his faith and his actions worked together. His actions made his faith complete.”

If we don’t know where we are or how to measure if we are improving or not, then we could end up just running in place.  There has to be some sort of scale that we buy into and all understand. According to Quartz, “Galileo Galilei was the first person to invent a device that gauged heat in the early 16th century. But his thermoscope, as it’s called, was missing a crucial piece that differentiated it from the thermometer: a scale. It could show that temperature had changed, but not by how much.”  Without an understanding of scale, then we can’t make sense of what to do next from where we are now. It’s important.

One place we don’t need a scale, nor will there ever (at least in this life) be given to us is the level of our faith.  We know from scriptures that our faith can sometimes be low and sometimes be high and always has the opportunity to grow.  But, where are we now?  Well, we are right where the Holy Spirit is giving us the sense of where we are.  I have found in my life that there are times when my faith weakens and I rely upon myself.  There are other times when I have surrendered it all and and placed every bit of faith I could muster in Him.  And, I know that the more I am in touch with God’s Word, fellowship, worship, prayer and service that my faith will increase and grow.  So, in God’s realm, don’t worry about a scale.  Let’s just give it our all.

Reference: James 2:22 (New Living Translation)