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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 2413: Once We Know

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“The Lord our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions.“

Seems I can’t go anywhere that I am not asked about how we are to manage in today’s day and age as it relates to misconduct and behaviors that impact culture in the workplace.  There was a time that it was standard practice to push someone back to their boss and the best thing to do was to have them work it out between themselves.  But, through today’s lens that is not recognizing that power is at play and the one without power shouldn’t be the one who has the burden of remedy.  We are in an age where once we know, we are in the know and those in the know must act until all that can be done is done.  It’s not the perfect litmus test or axiom, but if we are put in the know, we can’t let it go.

God doesn’t hold us accountable for what we don’t know, but He is clear, once we do know what is right and wrong in His eyes, we are accountable to Him. There is responsibility in following Jesus and we all will fall short of that responsibility, and that’s way okay with God.  But, He wants us to keep trying and to keep coming back to Him for that graceful and merciful forgiveness. He also wants us to be a reflection of that forgiving spirit to those around us. That we know.  And, that we shouldn’t ever let go.

Reference:  Deuteronomy 29:29 (New Living Translation)