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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 2447: The Shape Of You

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“Hold on to the pattern of wholesome teaching you learned from me—a pattern shaped by the faith and love that you have in Christ Jesus.”

Who knew that there were shapes in the universe we didn’t know about? Check this out from the Journal of Nature Communications: “Our world is made up of elegant shapes — there’s the square, the rectangle, the sphere, the prism and many more. But sometimes, these shapes don’t quite fit nature’s game board. Sometimes, you also need a “scutoid.” This shape — new to math, not to nature — is the form that a group of cells in the body takes in order to pack tightly and efficiently into the tricky curves of organs, scientists reported in a new paper.” Just about the time we think we know it all, we get a new shape. Not unlike our organization structures and designs.  Each time we think know how the work pattern should flow and how work should get done, we have to adapt to a change and make the organization be more fluid. That is, if we want to be nimble and able to respond to the world around us. Those who stay trapped in the same org structure might find themselves left behind.

By the way, this is what a “scutoid” looks like:

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are shaped in God’s image and then as Paul tells us we are to again be shaped by the faith and the love we have for Jesus. We also change and adapt, but the shape of Christ is one which we can bring with us each and every day into our jobs, relationships and all of our efforts. The question we must continue to ask ourselves is are we holding ourselves to His shaping or are we allowing ourselves to be shaped by what we shouldn’t?

Reference: 2 Timothy 1:13 (New Living Translation)