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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 2757: Biding Our Time

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“Two full years later, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing on the bank of the Nile River.”

We are impatient by nature.  And then add that we are naturally filled with a sense of seniority and entitlement. We consider that lines that we must queue up for as part of how we live, but at the same time we try and find ways to shortcut them through purchase or maneuver our way up in the lines that are in front of us.  Sometimes lines are meant to be legitimately jumped but in most cases we are to wait our turn and be patient.  We won’t always make it through before the light changes, but if we try to make it we do it with great risk.

Joseph waited for two years in prison.  Two years in a jail, regardless of the time or circumstances is a long time.  Why would God leave such a great person and example for all of us locked away for two years?  Maybe not for us to know God’s reasons but possibility Joseph spent that time getting better ready for the next steps for him.  We know he was not idle and earned favor and was given responsibilities to administer other prisoners.  Undoubtedly, he learned something and that learning was good for him.  And quite possibly, for any myriad of reasons, he just wasn’t ready for what God had for him next. This might be happening to us right now in our career and jobs.  The doors just aren’t opening.  The promotion is not coming.  We feel stuck where we are.  But, are we really stuck or are we just biding God’s timing for us?  When we think about it that way, what is right in front of us right now to do can look a lot better than it did before.

Reference: Genesis 41:1 (New Living Translation)