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Use Strategy as Your Backbone
This column is part of a 2024 series celebrating learnings from NST’s 50 years in business. We’ve had the good fortune of working with companies that at times have been overflowing with ideas, many of them you might even consider…
Lesson 5: Get Your Hands Dirty
This column is part of a 2024 series celebrating learnings from NST’s 50 years in business. A learning and teaching culture has always been core to NST – and there is no better way to learn than to get your…
Lesson 4: Be humble. Be kind. Be a good friend.
This column is part of a 2024 series celebrating learnings from NST’s 50 years in business. While humility as a quality of successful business leaders has received increased attention over the last several years — along with the concept of…
Lesson 3: Empower and Invest in Others
NST’s New Learning Manifesto Continues Legacy of Mentorship This column is part of a 2024 series celebrating learnings from NST’s 50 years in business. “What happens if we train them and they leave,” asked one agency leader to another. “What…
Lesson 2: Do The Right Thing
This column is part of a 2024 series celebrating learnings from NST’s 50 years in business. I remember sitting at an NST retreat during the early 2000s when our ethics committee – a subset of 20-something NSTers – presented a…
Lesson 1: Go Deep Into Community
NST Announces 2024 Philanthropic Partner NST’s involvement in the community has been a critical part of our business for 50 years. When Bob Smith and Dave Nuffer first opened the doors to NST, they strategically decided to get involved in…
New Year, Big Milestone: NST Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Key Learnings
50 Years … it didn’t happen by accident. It took passion, grit, a commitment to doing good work, and constant exploration and evolution, not only by our company’s founders and leaders but also by each person who is part of…
NST President Teresa Siles in The San Diego Union-Tribune
Organizational Values, Purpose & Culture are More Important Than Ever According to a 2022 Harris Poll, 82 percent of shoppers want a consumer brand’s values to align with their own. That same survey found that three quarters of shoppers have…
Living Our Purpose with ‘Make Things Better’ Initiative
There’s no doubt NST has a long history in the San Diego community and in the communities in which we do business. Just about everywhere we go, we hear stories of how our company’s founders and previous leaders contributed in…
People Are Not Your Biggest Asset
In 2001, Jim Collins debunked the old adage “people are your biggest asset” by asserting not just any people will do. Rather, Collins argued that “the right people” are in fact what drive great organizations. With this philosophy in mind,…
San Diego Union-Tribune Op-Ed from NST President and Partner Teresa Siles: San Diego businesses are eager to reopen. Here’s what they should keep in mind
The article below originally appeared as an Opinion-Editorial piece by NST President and Partner Teresa Siles in The San Diego Union-Tribune on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. With the elimination of the tiered system in California and low COVID-19 case rates,…
Recognizing our Leaders – Teresa Siles
At Nuffer, Smith, Tucker, we’ve set our sights on redefining public relations. While so much has changed over the last four decades, at NST one thing has remained constant – each of our agency leaders, past and present, have been…