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 2503: Data Sets

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“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”

Ever wonder where all the data comes from or analysts, writers, reporters, etc. to draw upon.  Some organizations build their own data sets, but then they have to spend the time, energy and resources to keep it up to date.  We need the data, but we can’t always build it ourselves.  So, we need to seek for the central data set that we can tap into knowing it is always up to date and relevant that we can learn to use once and not have to spend time or money re-learning how to source the data.  I didn’t know there is one of these out there for economic data until I read about F.R.E.D.; the Federal Reserve Economic Data.  The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis keeps up the data; 509,000 different data series from 87 different sources of economic and financial data all accessible by one single intuitive and easy to use interface.  Who knew?

One single intuitive, easy to use interface for all that we need is someplace really close by. It’s God’s Word and it’s asking for us to draw upon all that it has to offer.  Are we accessing God’s Word daily so we are prepared for what this day will bring?

Reference: Hebrews 4:12 (New Living Translation)