Elana Duffy
Quick tips to building a start-up business team in any field
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Elana Duffy
- Jan 14, 2016
- 5 min
The best “Make or Buy?” answer in the service sector: Neither
The classic “make-or-buy” decision often neglects one important aspect: what the end-user wants. That became clear to me as my team and I...
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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
- 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
- May 27, 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
- 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
- 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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