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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 2842: Filtering

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“Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.”

Right now it is hard to filter through all of the news, voices of social media, soundbites and video clips that are designed to sway and position us to a point of view.  Establishing truth has become harder and harder and believe me I know, it is tiring to pursue it and we can become resentful for having to do so because establishments that were once held up to providing truth have become slanted and more consumed with editorializing than just providing the facts.  But, we have a responsibility to ourselves and others to pursue the truth, filter out the rest, and stay grounded in what we know as fact, not what we think might be the truth.  It’s not just in our society that we need to do this, it is within our work and with those we work with.

I’m just going to say it; as believers who profess Jesus as our Lord, we must self scrutinize and self uphold truths to a higher standard.  We have the standard of representing Christ and what He gave for us.  This weekend we will celebrate a free country.  But not all who have the protections of the freedoms of our human-written Constitution experience or feel the daily freedoms that others do.  And because of this, we should be more committed than ever to filtering out what is not the truth and returning to, as Paul tells us to do in the verse above, the message and teachings of Jesus to establish ourselves within those truths and then share them out to others.  Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control is what is needed more than ever today and that His truth is what is the real truth and is what can only set us fully free.

To those in the United States, Happy Fourth of July.

Reference: Colossians 2:8 (New Living Translation)