Author Archives: Rusty Rueff

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 2988: Say It Out Loud

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“You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.”

There are many ways to communicate and we know them all.  But, is one a stronger medium than another?  I think it depends on whom and how many people we are desiring to communicate with.  Certainly there are those who are such great writers and they have a channel of distribution that can reach many that their written words might be enough.  However those same great writers might fall prey to their strengths when needing to communicate something one-to-one and they turn to the keyboard or the pen to communicate.  Maybe not for everyone, but for a lot of us, we’d rather send that letter, email or text versus directly speak to someone verbally.  I’d suggest that when it is hard to do and we’d rather deflect to another form of communication, then it probably means we should be saying what needs to said, out loud to the person or the group directly.

Many times when we say something out loud others will be listening and then hold us to what we said, or use our statement to prove or believe what we said.  This can be a really good thing as it can hold us accountable for what comes out of our mouths.  Jesus used the power of speaking out loud when He raised Lazarus from the dead.  As we read in the verse, He didn’t need to speak to God, but instead used His words to reinforce the belief of those around Him.  Maybe, this is also why we should not be afraid to pray out loud with others.  It might be that today there is someone who is doubting or discouraged, who just needs to hear our loud the prayers that we are offering up for them.

Reference:  John 11:42 (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.