Elana Duffy
New year, new website, same quality content
Happy New Year! Welcome back to our blog series and to our updated website. You didn’t see a post from us in the fourth quarter of last...
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Elana Duffy
- Jul 5, 2016
- 4 min
The road trip of a blog, and seeking expert advice
We know that we've been gone for a bit, working on some exciting projects we look forward to sharing with you in the coming weeks and...
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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 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 9, 2015
- 4 min
Motivation (and posters) aren't always enough. Try action instead.
Social media inundates us with short motivational phrases that are the modern-day equivalent of magic spells, meant to transform us...
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Elana Duffy
- Apr 1, 2015
- 5 min
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 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
- 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
- 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 29, 2015
- 4 min
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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Elana Duffy
- Jan 21, 2015
- 4 min
Reply, Reply All, or No Reply at All: Tips and tricks for managing responses
The response was perfect. Your cubicle buddy is going to laugh at your slightly snarky but still informed response to his recent push of...
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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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