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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 2887: What Stands

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“And all the trees will know that it is I, the Lord, who cuts the tall tree down and makes the short tree grow tall. It is I who makes the green tree wither and gives the dead tree new life. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do what I said!”

Decisions are hard to accept. So many of the decisions that affect us are made by someone else and we feel like we have no input into these so our only real choice is to accept what has been given to us and let it stand, or to fight back with disagreement and even protest.  And, I’m not talking about politics and societal issues, I’m talking about what happens everyday at work. I talked to someone recently who was having a really hard time with a decision that had been made and was debating what to do; fight, flight or just let it stand.  After talking it all out, it came down that the decision that was made was definitely not well thought out, but at the end of the day, it wasn’t something that was to cause lasting damage or resentment, so the decision about the decision, was to accept it and move on.  And, so much of what is decided for us by others, can be okay if we only let it play out and don’t overreact.

Our God is the God of decisions.  I really love this verse from Ezekiel to know that He has it all in control. This verse also speaks to me that He is the God of justice and fairness and will even things out as they need to be. He knows what should stand and what shouldn’t.  If we lived out our lives in this place of understanding and accepting, we’d be way better for ourselves and others.

Reference: Ezekiel 17:24  (New Living Translation)