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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...
Frank Luby
Apr 1, 20155 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Mar 5, 20154 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Feb 18, 20154 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Feb 12, 20155 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Jan 7, 20154 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Dec 3, 20144 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Nov 26, 20145 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Nov 5, 20144 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Oct 30, 20145 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Oct 16, 20144 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Sep 23, 20146 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Sep 12, 20144 min read
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What's In a Story?
All great stories share the same components and follow the same guiding principles that allow us to communicate. This makes the story –...
Frank Luby
Aug 11, 20143 min read
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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...
Frank Luby
Mar 31, 20142 min read
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