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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 2552: Replenish And Refresh

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“The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.”

Last Friday, the monthly job growth numbers came out.  There was a slow down to 155K payroll jobs created versus 198K expected, but it still was an increase. The increase month-over-month without exception has happened since the beginning of 2008. How long will it last?  We don’t know.  But, we do know that we are facing a long-term labor shortage in some critical areas.  What happens is that in areas of economic growth, like technology, that once we go into a deficit of labor/talent that the time frame to recover to full replenishment can be very long and maybe never can be overcome, unless there is a significant slowdown or collapse in the need of those skills and experience.  The attached chart shows just that long-term effect.  This is why we must always be thinking about constantly replenishing and refreshing our talent pools.  If you are looking at shortage coming (retirements, competitive hiring, restrictions on the pipeline – immigration or lack of education) then now is the time to look to how your teams can be refreshed to meet the needs of the future so that there is always a chance at replenishment.

 

 

 

We can also feel this draining in our journey to bring glory to God in our work.  This is why God tells us that we need to be daily replenishing and renewing our relationship with Him. He wants to bring us the energy, commitment and encouragement to bring in the harvest for Him.  He told us that the workers are few, so why wouldn’t He be committed to keeping us renewed in Him? And how do we also do this, we refresh others first.  I totally love that promise!

Reference: Proverbs 11:25 (New Living Translation)