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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 2864: Connectors

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“All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it.”

I am seeing and hearing more and more about how hard it is to make everyone who is now working from home feel connected with each other and also how to feel more a part of the bigger organization.  As we each become more of our own “nodes” that exist and work across a network of others, also being their own nodes, then we are going to have to find new and creative ways to “mesh” everyone together.  It’s happening to all of us as don’t have those normal moments that we gather together physically.  I saw someone here in our Rhode Island neighborhood and  our first questions to each other were, “Where have been?”.  Come to find out that we both got here for the summer within a week of each other, but  because of the cancellation of all of the usual gatherings, our paths have not crossed.  This is the next normal, at least for a while, so we are going to have to work harder and harder to stay connected and keep others connected, that is if we want to hold onto the community that any organization can be if worked at it.

I wonder if part of what we can do to bring glory to God in our purposed working, is to be the Connectors of others?  We know we are to be of encouragement to others, and maybe in this time, the best encouragement could be to sure that everyone is reminded of their connection to one another and the fun and uplifting that can come from these relationships.  Let’s think about it this week and see what we can do to be one of those connectors.

Reference: 1 Corinthians 12:27 (New Living Translation)