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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 3K327: M.A.S.M.Y. Mindset

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“But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness…”

I read about the “M.A.S.M.Y. Mindset”.  This works out to be “Mock a student, mock yourself.”  And, yes, it is a mindset that we can choose.  I read this about the mindset: “It boils down to this: If you know something someone else doesn’t know, and in the course of conversation they reveal their ignorance to you — in some stumbling, ungainly, potentially embarrassing way, but in the context of a genuine eagerness to learn — they are a student, and you must not mock them.”  It is sad that we even have to think about this, but in a time where kindness in the workplace and in our society is not a given, it becomes important for us to adopt a mindset that assures that we are being as kind as we can. Others are trying to learn and while they might not be up to our standards…yet…they are attempting to do so and we should kindly appreciate this.

Kindness is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.  If we are not producing kindness we need to ask ourselves what is wrong with us, the tree.  A bad tree will not produce good fruit so it is on us to get ourselves right so that we can be an example of kindness to others.  We can be true standard bearers in this area of our lives and it will make a difference to others around us.  So, let’s adopt the mindset that leads to the good fruit in our lives.

Reference: Galatians 5:22 (New Living Translation)