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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 2902: Guardians

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“Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith”

Here in the U.S. we now have our Guardians of the Galaxy and I am not talking about the next installment in the movie franchise.  The military name of the Space Force service people are “Guardians”.  Some love it, others don’t but I don’t think it matters other than we continue to be reminded that those who we consider “guardians”, because they are human and that the institutions they work within can always be corrupted, seldom live up to our expectations of them being impervious or infallible.  It’s why we more often hear the term as “Guardian Angels” who we expect because they are angels to never let us down. In business we can also fall into a false sense of security when we think we have a mentor, champion or sponsor who acts as if they are a guardian for our careers. But when push comes to shove, they may not be there for us.  It’s a familiar story to me and many others.  So, let’s celebrate the guardians in our lives, but let’s never place our full faith in who turns out after all, to be only people just as we are.

Christ though, He is the guardian of our souls and our eternal life and He asks for our full surrender and devotion so that He may protect us against any and all.  I like that Paul told the Galatians that at one time the law was the only guardian that people could look to to keep them in the good graces of God.  The law protected them, if they followed it.  And then Christ came along and He became the protection, if we followed Him.  Looking for a guardian who is the real deal?  Look no further than Jesus who is right here with us, right now, watching over us.

Reference:  Galatians 3:24 (New Living Translation)