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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 2579: One Place

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“On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place.”

Last month brought us the announcements of Amazon and Apple about their second Headquarters.  We knew Amazon was scouting out for their next expansions, but the Apple announcement that they would expand by 15,000 people in Austin was pretty exciting (Just so happens I am here in Austin today and I can tell you they are more than excited). There comes a time, and maybe never for some small companies, but for growing and larger companies that one place just doesn’t work anymore.  It’s a hard moment as the maturity and trust level to create outposts is a greater requirement than is recognized at the time.  But, done right, one place doesn’t fit all and many needs and wants can be met by creating multiple locations.

The Apostles were all in one place when the Holy Spirit arrived.  What a morning that must have been.  Today, we are faced with the challenges of one place being hard for a church, much less all believers being in one place.  There is a power to that though as we read in Acts and as anyone can attest who has ever been to a large revival or crusade.  But, for the most part, we live and work not in one place, but remotely in the world.  However, that doesn’t mean we can’t be in one place mentally and spiritually with others.  As the opening lines of the 1970’s TV show, The Six Million Dollar Man, said, “We have the technology.”  The wife of my Pastor created a daily 5AM text group to bring many women to one place on a text thread to pray.  An agreement with a co-worker that at a certain time of the day they both will stop and pray for a moment connects them across a continent.  The commitment of a small group that they will pray for each other daily brings them to one place.  You get the drift.  One place can be found, but only if we only go looking for it.

Reference: Acts 2:1 (New Living Translation)