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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 2619: Staying In Our Lanes

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“And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own?”

Did you see Saturday’s Kentucky Derby or read anything about it?  Well, I was there (as I am each year) and the 22 minutes of waiting to see if Maximum Security had performed an infraction or not seemed like forever.  In the end, he’d not stayed in his lane and when he drifted, for whatever reason, he impeded the progress of another horse or two and in horse racing that is a big no-no. If you have ever seen a horse and jockey go down because the horse behind got impeded upon, you’d understand how serious this can be.  It reminded me that in our work, we all have our lanes and many of the troubles we have in the workplace are because someone would rather run in someone else’s lane rather than stay in their own and run their own race.  We do this in life all the time and each time we drift, even when so well-intended, we can end up doing some serious damage.

Jesus is pretty clear where our lane is to remain with our sins versus those of others.  Let’s consider that before we judge someone else today, or try to fix them, before we’ve fixed ourselves.  Sadly, but in reality, we have plenty of lane to work with when it comes to improving ourselves.

Reference: Matthew 7:3 (New Living Translation)