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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 2984: What Goes Around…

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“For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.“

If one was to keep track of what goes around, they’d find that what goes around comes around.  How many times have we all seen in the workplace that those who are critical of others end up being the ones who others one day later find a more substantial critique of them?  The same is said of companies that spend their time tearing down their competitor, only to later to find themselves the ones being attacked.  We can say life is too short to spend our time focused on the faults of others.  And, we can say that life is too short to not focus on the good of others, learn from those traits and aspire to be better.

Jesus doesn’t mince His words when He comes to us judging others. He’s clear about it; what goes around with judgement will come back around to us.  The great writer Oswald Chambers put it this way; “Who of us would dare to stand before God and say, “My God, judge me as I have judged others?”” If God was to judge us as we have judged the sins and faults of others, we’d be in a very bad place for a very long time.  So today, leave the judging to someone else and let’s do our best to refocus on the good and the best of others.

Reference:  Matthew 7:2 (New Living Translation)