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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 2644: Service Day

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“There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord.”

There are certain days throughout the year that we recognize the service of others.  We even have days that mark different kinds of services that we can do on that day. Companies have instituted service days and allot service hours. We like to celebrate service and we all are used to tipping for good service.  But, how often do we just think about making the serving of others part of our every day life.  How much better would our organizations be if we could regularly observe that our employees were serving each other and that the attitude of service was expected and ordinary throughout how we work?  That would be a different kind of company.  That would be a company any of us would want to work for!

Paul tells the Corinthians that there are many ways to serve and that we each have our own ways of serving, but that we are to be reminded that we do so in the service of our Lord. In our work we are not going to always have the opportunity to tell others why we have a heart for service, but in our own hearts as we serve someone at our job, we can know why we re doing so and ask God to bless that extra effort.  God has a great way of making sure that others recognize a unique, loving and serving spirit and each time we serve someone else, in His name and glory, we are making a difference for Him.  So, let’s finish strong this week by making today our own Service Day for Him.

Reference: 1 Corinthians 12:5 (New Living Translation)