Nancy K. Austin


Road Trip: Bullish

By Nancy K. Austin |  Jun 1, 2002

Restaurateur Richard Melman leads us on a tour of the sites and hidden delights of his hometown, Chicago.  Read story

Bank City, USA

By Nancy K. Austin |  Mar 1, 2002

Investment banker Hugh L. McColl Jr. takes us on a tour of 'Bank City, USA' (also known as Charlotte, N.C.).  Read story

Valley Guy

By Nancy K. Austin |  Dec 1, 2001

Guy Kawasaki tells you where to meet and what to eat in Silicon Valley.  Read story

Pleasure Island

By Nancy K. Austin |  Nov 1, 2001

How to dress, where to go, what to say. The Hawaii you'd otherwise miss out on.  Read story

Old Route 66

By Nancy K. Austin |  Oct 1, 2001

How the Albuquerque locals get their kicks.  Read story

Club Fed

By Nancy K. Austin |  Sep 1, 2001

A Washington, D.C., tip sheet from ultimate insider Mary Naylor, capital native and founder of her own corporate-concierge business.  Read story

Young Dot-Com Millionaires in Love

By Nancy K. Austin |  May 15, 2000

Passions run deep as television soap operas struggle to catch up with our fast-paced world.  Read story

Rock through the Ages

By Nancy K. Austin |  May 15, 2000

Everyone's so caught up with the transformation the Internet has wrought that it's easy to forget that we've seen change before. One century-old quarry, Gran...  Read story

Simply Stupendous Press Kits

By Nancy K. Austin |  Mar 2, 2000

Now that you've hissed your way through that sibilant headline, let me just say I feel your migraine. But that's nothing compared to the ...  Read story

Sailor's Delight

By Nancy K. Austin |  Nov 1, 1999

On a tiny Caribbean island, Daffodil Harris started a business doing laundry by hand for vacationing boaters. Today her company is a multidivisional seafarin...  Read story

Pure Internet Play

By Nancy K. Austin |  Oct 15, 1999

The driving force behind the success of Simutronic's online games isn't the technology, it's the users. Here's how the culture behind these interactive games...  Read story

First Aide

By Nancy K. Austin |  Sep 1, 1999

Melba J. Duncan knows what makes for a world-class executive assistant. Her one-of-a-kind recruiting business may even help you learn how to find a superstar...  Read story

Tear Down the Walls

By Nancy K. Austin |  Apr 1, 1999

Faced with poor internal communications, accounting firm Lipschultz, Levin Gray created a whole new way of doing business by eliminating all wall...  Read story

Buzz

By Nancy K. Austin |  May 1, 1998

A look at the elusive marketing concept commonly called "buzz." Here are some ways that buzz can be generated and the effects it has on a business or product.  Read story

The Buzz Factory

By Nancy K. Austin |  May 1, 1998

Tattoo, Inc., a low-profile San Francisco marketing firm, has amassed an impressive group of blue-chip clients with its uncanny ability to define the essence...  Read story

When Buzz Goes Bad

By Nancy K. Austin |  Apr 28, 1998

How a company handles adversity, and the bad buzz that swirls in its wake, is a true test of its operations and management.  Read story

Modeling Your Company's Future

By Nancy K. Austin |  Dec 1, 1997

John Ward, a management consultant and owner of Need To Know, teaches workshop participants to sculpt images from clay that represent their company's philoso...  Read story

The Cultural Evolution

By Nancy K. Austin |  Oct 15, 1997

Michael May of Empower Trainers & Consultants has developed an extraordinary corporate culture that helped put his company on the 1997 Inc 500 list.  Read story

Starstruck

By Nancy K. Austin |  Sep 1, 1997

Two noted management gurus debate the pros and cons of having a hotshot employee on the payroll.  Read story

What Do America Online and Dennis Rodman Have in Common?

By Nancy K. Austin |  Jul 1, 1997

When AOL over-sold its service, did it apologize and make nice? Not really!  Read story

What Balance?

By Nancy K. Austin |  Apr 1, 1997

A management consultant asks, What would you do if you were forced to choose between business and family?  Read story