Elana Duffy
Honing Habit: Creating a Master Story
This is the first in a series of blogs on what we at Present Tense LLC call a “Master Story”. In this installment, Chris Thunder looks at...
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Elana Duffy
- Sep 2, 2015
- 4 min
Lessons from Netflix pricing: Ignoring statistical fallacies … and trolls
Here’s a simple business question for you. Let’s say you had 100 customers and charged $10 per month for your service. You decide to...
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Elana Duffy
- Jul 23, 2015
- 4 min
Flexiblity at work: lessons from a PA
Like many people working towards their big break in television and/or film, I do multiple jobs. Among them, a decent amount of my work is...
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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 12, 2015
- 4 min
Apple just launched a “value war” in music streaming
We’ve talked about this before: music has value. Potentially, a lot of value. And now, Apple is seizing their share. But Apple and its...
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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 28, 2015
- 5 min
Crew coordination: a pilot's perspective on managing a team
Every one of us will experience this in our careers: some teams fall apart when a roadblock or a crisis comes up, while other teams adapt...
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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
- 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 24, 2015
- 4 min
Lessons From Making a TV Pilot Part II: The Premiere
Editor's Note: You may have noticed we haven't posted in a couple of weeks. This is in large part to our primary blog editor helping Paul...
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Elana Duffy
- Feb 26, 2015
- 4 min
Buyer be weary (or, how camping companies can save customer service)
- Elana Duffy Serve your customers well and they will serve you in return. That concept sounds so easy, right? Two run-ins lately have...
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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
- 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 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 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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