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Elana Duffy
- Mar 6, 2015
- 4 min
Tales of a recovering engineer: there's a little creative in all of us
- Elana Duffy There is a point in our business lives where we can all set aside our pre-supposed differences and get along. Reaching that point should be a goal for all of us, not just because it’s nice to think we can all sit and have coffee together, but because we need to do this for the betterment of business and productivity. I am an engineer. Engineers build. We think logically: we have a train of thought that boards at a station, travels a defined path, and disembarks
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Elana Duffy
- Feb 13, 2015
- 5 min
Writing Creatively: The hard part
- Paul Mooney Creative writing is not something reserved only for those dreaming of selling their first literary masterpiece to the world at large. Storytelling is a key element of many things we do in business, from presentations to white papers (to stories at the water cooler, but we are trying to stay in the non-fiction realm here). I'll clear up any mystery right off the bat: the hard part is actually writing something. Not all that mysterious of a revelation, I grant you
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Elana Duffy
- Jan 30, 2015
- 4 min
Making every day a snow day
An online article in New York Magazine following the recent northeastern Blizzard-That-Wasn’t addressed an interesting implication of technological integration to the workplace: the impending death of the adult snow day. As an individual who telecommutes every day, I can agree with the general content. While friends stayed up late snapping photos on New York City’s abandoned 3rd Avenue, I prepped for conference calls with California. While former office co-workers enjoyed a d
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