Elana Duffy
Storytelling for Professionals: How it helps and how to get started
This is the latest in a series of blogs on what we at Present Tense LLC call a “Master Story”. In this installment, Frank Luby looks at...
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Elana Duffy
- Jun 25, 2015
- 3 min
Benefiting everyone through community service days
As a founding member of Race2Rebuild, a charity racing team raising money for disaster recovery projects, I’ve been lucky enough to help...
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Elana Duffy
- Jun 16, 2015
- 4 min
Learning a Violin's Lessons
A simple Internet search will tell you that the average amount of time it takes a person to learn to play the violin properly (which I...
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Elana Duffy
- Jun 4, 2015
- 5 min
Embracing a world of content
I’m a soccer (or, really, football) fan. Having followed the sport, and only that sport, for years, it wasn’t much of a shock that many...
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Elana Duffy
- May 20, 2015
- 4 min
“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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Elana Duffy
- May 12, 2015
- 4 min
Lessons from Two Miles (and Higher) Up
Let me begin this article by saying that hiking is nothing new to me. I know, I know, as The Bard himself so eloquently put it: "The lady...
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Elana Duffy
- Apr 15, 2015
- 4 min
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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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 12, 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...
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Elana Duffy
- Feb 4, 2015
- 4 min
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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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 23, 2014
- 2 min
Present Tense Storytelling eBook Series is Launched!
We’ve published our first “self-help” ebook on storytelling skills Present Tense LLC is launching a series of ebooks aimed at executives,...
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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 11, 2014
- 4 min
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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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 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
- Oct 1, 2014
- 5 min
More Lessons From Advertising: Business Culture Laziness
- Paul Mooney In my last post I covered one of the biggest impediments to creativity in advertising and business: fear. This time I'll be...
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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
- Aug 27, 2014
- 5 min
Business lessons of a music legend
- Frank Luby The call came as midnight approached, along with my deadline. I was in the office of the Maroon, the University of Chicago’s...
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