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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 2991: The Price Of Too Right

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“When you are on the way to court with your adversary, settle your differences quickly”

It’s good to be right.  But it’s not always good to be too right.  One of my companies is going through a dispute.  Both sides are right about a lot of things.  But, both sides want to be right about everything.  One side in particular is too right and can never be wrong.  I fear it is not going to end well.  When one wants to be too right it can mean that there is no room for compromise or give.  There is a price to be paid if we pursue being the only one who can be right.

Matthew tells us to settle our differences quickly.  He goes on to say, “I assure you that you won’t be free until you have paid the last penny.”  We all experience disputes, disagreements, different points of view, etc.  What I believe we are hearing from Matthew is that what really matters is not the “what” but the “how” in our resolution of conflicts.  When we draw out a dispute, or we let a problem with someone else fester, we end up paying a price for that.  I think of the years that go by with disputes not resolved that can take a toll from everyone involved.  Got something that needs to be resolved?  Hear out Matthew…”settle your differences quickly”.

Reference:  Matthew 5:25 (New Living Translation)

Note:  As you might be following along, we are approaching the 3000th post of Purposed worKING.  Many of you have been with me since the beginning in October 2008.  Others might have just recently subscribed.  Either way, I’d like to thank you for reading along daily with a special 1/2 hour Thank You Zoom Call on Wednesday July 14th at 1:00pm PDT/4:00PM EDT.  If you are interested in attending, email me at rusty@rueff.com and I will send you the link.