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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 2573: Peace Day

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“I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them.  Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity.”

This is the Friday before we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend and the federal holiday on Monday.  There is an entire generation of our workforce who never knew that there was a time when we didn’t celebrate this coming day.  1968 is beyond their comprehension and the early 1990’s when the holiday was being accepted across the states is before their time too.  And for them, MLK Day might as well be President’s Day or some other federal holiday that we let come and go.  But, it is not a day that should be just passed because this day we remember is a day of a journey which we have yet to reach the destination.  Dr. King spoke, wrote and preached on many subjects, and he was as passionate about peace as he was about poverty and racial equality.  He sought a peaceful world and he challenged us then and now to do our part.  For us to really celebrate and honor him on Monday, we must be also seeking peace today in all aspects of our work, civic engagement and life.  It is not an easy set of choices to make as Dr. King demonstrated in his life and death.

The scripture we are given in 1 Timothy is as about as clear as we can find in the Bible.  We are to pray for our leaders and give thanks for them.  And we do this so that they, and we, can find peace in our country and lives.  While we honor Dr. King this long weekend, let’s also rededicate ourselves to the prayers that Paul prescribes.  It is a foundational part to be done in bringing peace.

PwK will be back on Tuesday. Until the, peace be with you.

Reference: 1 Timothy 2: 1-2 (New Living Translation)