Elana Duffy
Working to Live: Making an occasional working vacation... work
We all do it. Just as we all eat, sleep, and complain about politicians, we also are all guilty of at one time or another checking our...
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Elana Duffy
- Mar 5, 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...
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Elana Duffy
- Feb 18, 2015
- 4 min
The new prophet motive
- Frank Luby Two of the most frightening business headlines over the last three weeks both involved the state of California and a couple...
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Elana Duffy
- Jan 14, 2015
- 4 min
Post-Modern Work: What Millennials recognize and Baby Boomers don't
- Frank Luby The Economist welcomed us to 2015 with a handful of intriguing articles on the future of work. In “Workers On Tap”, they...
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Elana Duffy
- Jan 7, 2015
- 4 min
Lessons From One of the Greatest TV Shows Ever
- Paul Mooney Let me begin by directing you to the earlier post from Present Tense partner Elana Duffy highlighting the good business...
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Elana Duffy
- Dec 3, 2014
- 4 min
Positive Vibes to Positive Profits: Professional Development that Works
- Stacey Ebert Professional development can be a trial. No one wants to sit through monotone presentations or worse, click-through online...
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Elana Duffy
- Nov 26, 2014
- 5 min
What I learned while making a TV pilot
Paul Mooney As someone who spent four years as an officer in the Marines, I'm no stranger to large, complex operations. Weeks, months...
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Elana Duffy
- Nov 5, 2014
- 4 min
From the Big Screen to the Conference Table
Paul Mooney A screenplay probably looks like a strange piece of work from the perspective of someone unfamiliar with how scripts are...
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Elana Duffy
- Oct 30, 2014
- 5 min
5 Tips on Market Segmentation
- Frank Luby An Inc. article this week asked whether Apple could kill the freemium music model when it relaunches Beats Music. It also...
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Elana Duffy
- Oct 16, 2014
- 4 min
Literary Lessons: The positive Catch-22 of characters in business
- Elana Duffy My favorite book is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Between the sardonic humor, sarcasm, and - however ridiculous the book may...
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Elana Duffy
- Sep 23, 2014
- 6 min
Leadership without leaders: Lessons from disaster relief
- Frank Luby One week after an EF4 tornado destroyed Marysville, Indiana in March 2012, I performed clean-up work as part of a United Way...
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Elana Duffy
- Sep 12, 2014
- 4 min
Replacing Fear with Freedom: Lessons from the advertising environment
- Paul Mooney When was the last time you saw a television commercial that really made you laugh or, even less likely, positively affected...
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Elana Duffy
- Apr 10, 2014
- 4 min
Frank's Story
This is to serve as an introduction, a way to eliminate the feeling of being strangers. The founders of Present Tense want you to know...
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Elana Duffy
- Mar 31, 2014
- 2 min
Present Tense LLC is Live, But What Does That Mean For You?
The world is full of great ideas and great stories no one knows about. A few of them are probably in your head right now. Our mission at...
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