Elana Duffy
Road to Gold: Your Content Olympics
I know it's the off-season, but did you ever watch the Olympics? From the trials and tribulations of the planning and set up to a virus...
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Elana Duffy
- Apr 20, 2016
- 3 min
Quick tips to building a start-up business team in any field
Those of you who regularly read the posts here on the Present Tense Blog (or at least those of you out there who know enough to trust...
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Elana Duffy
- Dec 8, 2015
- 4 min
Collaboration: The Expert Pieces of your Master Story
This is the latest in a series of blogs on what we at Present Tense LLC call a “Master Story”. In this installment, Paul Mooney reminds...
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Elana Duffy
- Aug 6, 2015
- 4 min
Sons, fathers, and robots: humanity in business
A few months ago I grew impatient waiting in the lobby of the unemployment office. As is generally the best use of idle hands and minds,...
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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
- Jul 8, 2015
- 5 min
Corporately aging gracefully, or solving workplace problems before they are problems
Every now and then since leaving the Army, and even sometimes while I was in the Army, I wonder if I didn’t slip into a wormhole and pop...
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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
- 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 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
- 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 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 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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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 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
- 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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