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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 2393: The Beauty Of Order

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“For he will order his angels to protect you wherever you go.”

We love order.  To some extent, we crave order.  Many a startup has adopted the “no organization chart” principle only to find out that with growth, no one knows who works for whom, who to talk to about an idea or issue, or how to order their work. And one day, someone who has the courage puts together an organization chart and there is a calming of the cry for order.  We order the work of our days the best we can and when in order we feel more secure to create and improvise.  When we are without order, we have fear and contain what would take disorder and turn it to chaos or disaster.  So, with a little order we actually can tap into and unleash all kinds of amazing possibilities.

Saint Augustine said, “Order disposes all things, regular and irregular, in the places they fit.” We are part of God’s mosaic of order of Angels and all of His creations in how His Kingdom fits together here on Earth. If we have order in our lives, then we forward and fulfill the larger order He wishes to create.  But if not, then we become a barrier to the pieces fitting together as they should.  God is the master artist who longs to bring beauty through our order.

Reference: Psalm 91:11 (New Living Translation)