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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 2604: An Extra Gear

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“And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others.”

It’s Wednesday in the month that marks the end of winter and the first day of spring.  We are into spring for a week but in many places it is still gray, cold, snowy or rainy. And it feels like warmth and sunshine is still far away. I personally get a little down during this time with lower energy than I would like.  It’s in this time that I could use an extra gear. And, we are closing the first quarter of the year and the expectations are that we are picking up pace to carry into the middle of the year. So, how do we find this extra gear?  It is now that we should take stock of where we are, correct where we must, and lean into the areas where we are getting traction and then celebrate the achievements we have made so far.  The extra gear is found in the recognition of how far we have come and the plans of where we are going.

In 2 Corinthians we are told that God will provide generously in what we need. But, what this verse also tells us is that God is ready to give us our extra gear when we need Him.  If we need energy He provides and then gives us plenty left over to be shared.  So, when we are counting on and drawing from God, we not only are given the extra gear, we pick up pace so that there is more than needed; there is plenty left over.

Reference: 2 Corinthians 9:8 (New Living Translation)