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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 2732: Complacency Testing

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“In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge…”

I was watching the San Francisco 49ers game yesterday afternoon and the Head Coach was concerned going into the game that his players would be complacent.  That concern was rooted in the fact that the team had won a very close and tough game last week and he was worried that human nature would creep in, which would be predictive of complacency. It got me thinking about “Complacency Testing”.  How good would that be if we could test for complacency? If we could then we’d be able to tackle every job to be done with the same 100% of effort each and every time.  Well, it’s a good thought, but we can’t. What we can do is to stop for a moment, gather the team together and be sure that every person looks into their own level of energy and commitment to be sure that they get back up to go into whatever is next with all they have.

In 2 Peter we see that we are to make “every effort”. What does that tell us?  That tells me that being complacent is not what God expects from us in our following of him, serving Him, serving others and going about our work. “Every effort”!  Let’s remember that today in everything that we do.

Reference: 2 Peter 1:5 (New Living Translation)