Author Archives: Rusty Rueff

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 2581: A Moment Of Loyalty

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“Trust in the Lord and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper.”

As I write this I am struck by the number of stories I have heard recently from people about the uneasy feeling of doubt about the loyalty of their employer towards them and their co-workers.  The Tesla and Space-X layoffs in the same week might have triggered something in the zeitgeist as the question arises, “Does Elon know something about the economy that is a shadow coming?” Regardless, if we are feeling a question in the back of our mind, we have to work hard to not let that anxiety take us over.  It is in these moments that we make rash decisions or show our feelings and others will take that as a sign that we might also not being loyal back.  It’s in the times of building concern that we will hear from headhunters and others who will try and prey on this and convince us that the grass is greener on the other side.  It might be.  But, it might be that it only looks greener because our emotions are a little unsteady at the time.  Consider exercising a moment of loyalty today.  That means, go to work with full intentions of being where you are now, without concern, without doubt and with that focus, see how the day goes.

No matter where we are in our faith journey (on day one or too many days and years to count) we can run into doubts and fears that can make us question God’s loyalty to us and ours to Him.  Our verse today can come alive for us if we only act upon what the Psalm tells us; “trust and do”.  When we take those moments to be loyal and committed to God, He returns to us safety where we are, right now, and the promise goes further, that we will “prosper”.  Today, can be a great day for living out our loyalty.

Reference: Psalm 37:3 (New Living Translation)