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 2446: Erasing

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“He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.”

The New York Times is running a series of “Overlooked” obituaries about notable people they didn’t recognize at the time of the person’s death.  This Monday they ran an obit on Bette Nesmith Graham.  Most won’t know her name. She died in 1980.  But since the mid 1950’s those who ever corrected a term paper, a memo or a handwritten letter, would benefit from her invention of “Liquid Paper”.  You see, she was a terrible typist in a secretarial role and needed some type of assistance to just keep up. Her necessity became the invention that allowed many to be able to participate in typing and writing that they wouldn’t have been able to do before, and it solved her problem.

We each have a sin problem and the solution is right here in front of us, waiting at all times to take our sins away from us.  How great it is to have the correction of Christ in our lives. We will make mistakes today, many of them.  But let’s remember that Jesus erased our sins and all He asks us to do is call on Him to keep the erasing flowing.

Reference:  Psalm 103:12 (New Living Translation)