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Elana Duffy

“Music has value”: Hard lessons from the music industry

When Scott Borchetta walked on stage last week in Nashville to accept an award from the industry association MusicBiz, he had a message...

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Lessons from the year 26,631

Our more diligent followers may recall when I wrote my earlier post extolling the universal virtues of Mystery Science Theater 3000, I...

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The value of valuing employees

- Stacey Ebert Companies have many similarities to schools, only now we are all grown up. Jobs replace assignments, bosses replace...

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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...

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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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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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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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The Battlefield of Leadership

Elana Duffy Veteran’s Day, Armistice Day, whatever you call it in your country, the idea is the same in many countries that took part in...

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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...