- 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...

- Elana Duffy Serve your customers well and they will serve you in return. That concept sounds so easy, right? Two run-ins lately have...

- Frank Luby Two of the most frightening business headlines over the last three weeks both involved the state of California and a couple...

An online article in New York Magazine following the recent northeastern Blizzard-That-Wasn’t addressed an interesting implication of...

- Frank Luby The Economist welcomed us to 2015 with a handful of intriguing articles on the future of work. In “Workers On Tap”, they...

- Paul Mooney Let me begin by directing you to the earlier post from Present Tense partner Elana Duffy highlighting the good business...

We’ve published our first “self-help” ebook on storytelling skills Present Tense LLC is launching a series of ebooks aimed at executives,...

Paul Mooney As someone who spent four years as an officer in the Marines, I'm no stranger to large, complex operations. Weeks, months...

Paul Mooney A screenplay probably looks like a strange piece of work from the perspective of someone unfamiliar with how scripts are...

- Frank Luby An Inc. article this week asked whether Apple could kill the freemium music model when it relaunches Beats Music. It also...

- Elana Duffy My favorite book is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Between the sardonic humor, sarcasm, and - however ridiculous the book may...

- 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...

- 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...

- 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...

- Paul Mooney When was the last time you saw a television commercial that really made you laugh or, even less likely, positively affected...

A story is personal; you don’t want to tell it to a stranger. This post is to provide perspective and information, and ultimately to be a...

This is to serve as an introduction, a way to eliminate the feeling of being strangers. The founders of Present Tense want you to know...