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Elana Duffy
Nov 18, 20153 min read
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
Mar 24, 20154 min read
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, 20154 min read
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, 20155 min read
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, 20154 min read
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, 20154 min read
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, 20142 min read
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, 20144 min read
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, 20145 min read
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, 20144 min read
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, 20144 min read
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, 20145 min read
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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Elana Duffy
Oct 16, 20144 min read
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, 20145 min read
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, 20146 min read
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
Sep 19, 20145 min read
Music Lessons. Or, how to not bore your audience
- Elana Duffy Understanding what makes a band sync well together on stage has nothing to do with the style of music, in the same way that...
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Elana Duffy
Sep 12, 20144 min read
Replacing Fear with Freedom: Lessons from the advertising environment
- Paul Mooney When was the last time you saw a television commercial that really made you laugh or, even less likely, positively affected...
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Elana Duffy
Aug 11, 20143 min read
What's In a Story?
All great stories share the same components and follow the same guiding principles that allow us to communicate. This makes the story –...
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