Ralph Perrine

S3T Fri Jun 2: Balancing accountability and empowerment

🔊 Listen on Spotify This week we're looking at a very important aspect of change leadership: how to balance between empowerment and accountability when driving change. "If it saves time, blame me." "I've got your back." "This will be on me." These can be important and assuring words for teams or

S3T Sun May 28 - Memorial Day Edition: AI Optimism & Empathy, EPIC + Microsoft, Healthcare startup struggles, Circle Reserves, Ice Cream, Fireflies

🔊 For Everyone: Listen on the S3T Podcast 💎 For Paid Memberships: S3T Full Access - a curated, continously updated library of strategy and leadership materials for those who want to boost their effectiveness even further. Macro Inflation and Markets Up The Fed's inflation metric jumped 4.7% vs. the 4.6%

May 26: 3 Tactics for Managing Current Obligations while Learning and Building Something New

🔊 For Everyone: Listen on the S3T Podcast 💎 For Paid Memberships: S3T Full Access Happy Friday and Happy Memorial Day weekend! We've spent the last several weeks sharpening our conflict management skills because conflict is so frequently encountered when driving change - especially in a team leadership role.  Today we are

S3T Sun May 21 - Canton, Daml, Securities Clarity Act, AI reasoning, Ledger, Meringue, Rookeries...

🔊 For Everyone: Listen on the S3T Podcast 💎 For Paid Memberships: S3T Full Access S3T is a community devoted to learning the most critical professional skill of the 21st century: change leadership. Every Sunday we look at the rapid evolution of finance and technology so we can drive the kinds of

S3T Friday, May 19: The Upside of Wicked Problems

🔊 Listen to this Newsletter on the S3T Podcast Welcome to the S3T Friday Edition! Each Friday the S3T Newsletter and Podcast gives you a new capability to add to your change leadership skillset. I'm Ralph Perrine and I started S3T because I recognized that change leadership has become the most

S3T Sun May 14 - Mother's Day Edition: Cost of Living, Certainty as a Service, Proof of Personhood, JOMO, Worldcoin, May Apples...

New Members: Welcome and thank you for joining! Move this email to your inbox so you never miss one. S3T is a community devoted to learning the most critical professional skill of the 21st century: change leadership. Every Sunday we look at the big changes underway so we can proactively

S3T Fri May 12 - 6 Options for Resolving Conflicts

We've just spent 2 sessions talking about Resistance - dealing with resistance to change, and resisting the status quo.  While these are polar opposites, both have 1 element in common. They both involve lots and lots of opportunities for conflict. Happy Friday everyone - today we are focusing on healthy

S3T Sunday May 7 Special Edition: Flying Wheelchairs - a S3T Interview with Dan Dorszynski

🔊 Listen to this interview on the S3T Podcast S3T is focused on developing the change leadership skills to notice what needs to be changed, and then work successfully to make that change happen. Today's newsletter and podcast episode features a critical issue that demands change. We'll be talking with someone

S3T Sun Apr 30 - India#1, Halo, Layer 2 blues, Africa, Crypto gets professional, AI coaches, High Island, French-Mex

New Members: Welcome and thank you for joining! Move this email to your inbox so you never miss one. S3T is a community devoted to learning the most critical professional skill of the 21st century: change leadership. Every Sunday we look at the big changes underway so we can proactively

S3T Sun Apr 23 - Mini-Laterals, Tech Debt, Crypto hearings & mistrust, Hi Yields, Unstaking, Curry, Rivers

S3T is a community devoted to learning the most critical professional skill of the 21st century: change leadership. Every Sunday we look at the big changes underway so we can proactively help our stakeholders plan for success. 🔊 For Everyone: Listen on the S3T Podcast 💎 For Paid Memberships: S3T Full Access

S3T Sun Apr 16 - Middle Class, Uninsured Deposits, AutoGPT, LLM Thoughts, Crypto Market Cap winners, Tooth Mikes, Outdoor work...

🔊 For Everyone: Listen on the S3T Podcast 💎 For Paid Memberships: S3T Full Access Macro: "Mild" recession Inflation continues to grow but at a slower rate per data released this past week. The Fed used the R word...acknowledging that we may have a "mild recession" this year.  First, "transitory inflation"

April 9 - The Easter Edition - Leashing the Economy, Binance, Medical Algorithms, Small Plates, Lemurs, Transformations...

🔊 For Everyone: Listen on the S3T Podcast   💎 For Paid Memberships: S3T Full Access Macro: Positive Signs The economy added 236k jobs in March and unemployment for Black workers is now at an all time low. There's been talk the Fed might pause its rate hikes, but jobs reports like this

S3T Time Tracker now has charts!

Happy Wednesday!  Just a short note to let you know the S3T Time Tracker worksheet now includes a chart to help you analyze how you spent your time! It has the same easy-to-use worksheet you're used to.   Get the upgraded Time Tracker here. You can use it as a template

S3T Sun Apr 2 - Q1, BRICS, G7, VC Spring, GPT Bans, Bard Test, Vector DBs, Snails, Olives...

Listen on the S3T Podcast Macro: Q1 Reflections Economic factors shaping the concerns and decisions of your customers and financial stakeholders. Stocks recovered in Q1, but the economic mood remains cautious. Laid-off tech workers are getting hired by legacy firms - will this accelerate modernization at those firms? Working class

S3T Fri Mar 31 - Big & Little Picture Thinking that helps you drive change successfully

Happy Friday! Welcome to your S3T Friday edition - we're continuing our series on change leadership skills that can help you and your organization have the impact you want to have. Listen to this on the S3T Podcast Today we're going to talk about a skill you and your team

S3T Sunday Edition March 26 - Hyperinflation, Sick Banks, IP laundering, Big Consulting, Lab meat, Layer 2s, Spicy Margaritas...

Happy Sunday! Listen to this edition on the S3T Podcast. Macro Chaos The Fed raised interest rates another quarter point and Deutsche Bank joins the growing list of ailing banks.   The average costs for common household goods is up 13% and cheaper products are increasing their market share significantly.   Meanwhile

S3T Sunday March 19 - Bank blues, Turf war, GPT4, One Medical, Fidelity crypto, Light EA, Trilemma, Irish Creme, Upskilling birds...

A special welcome to new subscribers and members! If you signed up to get the free Time Tracker, hope you are off to a good start using it! DM me on LinkedIn or Twitter and let me know how its going! Listen to this edition on the S3T Podcast 📊 Macro

S3T Sun Mar 12 -Bank fails, GPT for Sheets, AI Advertising, Staking, Guns solution, Mason Farm, Cooking together, 3 Questions

📉 Macro - more uneven impacts from inflation Quick Glimpse of the Big Picture economics shaping your customer and stakeholders decisions. Good times here and there The Hospitality industry is hiring fast. And 25 crypto and web3 companies received funding - continuing the focus on security, privacy and decentralized finance for

S3T Sun Mar 5 - EthDenver Report, Web2 UX for Web3, Intl Women's Day, Decentralization & human rights, Green chili stew, Crows

📈 📉 Macro / Headlines / Trends Stocks are up, but consumers are reducing their discretionary retail spending. The Crypto market dropped sharply this week due to end-of-month liquidations and breaking news that Silvergate - a Federal Reserve member bank that positioned itself as the go-to bank and lender for crypto is facing insolvency.

S3T Friday March 3 - Making Time

Learn how to Make Time to take on something new and unfamiliar while still balancing your other obligations. The secret to this is starting to understand how much time you have and how you’re managing that time. And we're going to take a different approach than you may have seen in the past.

S3T Sun Feb 26 - REAIM, Base, Convergence, Light EA, Prompt Engineers, Post-Stack Software, Nori Chips, Spring

📈 📉 Macro / Headlines / Trends Markets reacted negatively to hotter than expected inflation - again - as Wall St posts biggest drop of 2023 so far. 401Ks are down and the retirement gap (the $ that people have in their retirement accounts vs what they'll likely need) is growing.   More in depth: Continue

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S3T Sun Feb 19 - BTC Bump, Web3 culling, Social media lawsuits, algo demise, DESO, De-paving, Mimolette, Compass skills...

📈 📉 Macro / Headlines / Trends Wholesale prices were up sharply, joining other indicators (used cars, retail shopping) that inflation is alive and well. The stock market slipped on the news as investors absorb expectations of more rate hikes, and interest rates likely staying elevated for longer. Bitcoin jumped 11% this week, sparking

S3T Sun Feb 12 - Valentines Edition: Optimism, Lazy regulators, Ordinals, Prompters, ChainGPT, Web3's privacy problem, Semillas, Late Winter...

Macro View Alongside a State of the Union laced with optimism, the University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Survey rose to 66.4 up from 64.9 in January.   The debt ceiling theatre continues: GOP ok with Medicare & Social Security spend and Dems ok with biggest defense budget ever. Meanwhile the

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S3T Sunday Feb 5 - Productivity losses, Future of housing, Aptos, Mini-ultrasound tech, Biotech arms race, Enterprise blockchain, FROG jam, Duck hybrids & gender change

Macro - Disinflationary? The Fed raised rates a quarter point on Wednesday this week, claiming a "disinflationary" process had begun. Friday's stunning jobs report called that into question, as the US added 517k jobs in January and unemployment dropped to a 54-year low. Recent indicators have suggested a slowing global

S3T Sunday Jan 29 - Tech Workers, Debt Ceiling, BTC WallSt Splitsville, AI & Bigger Data, Omics, the Eddie, 7 Spice...

Welcome to your Sunday Edition of S3T (pronounced "set")! If you are a member with paid full-access subscription, check out the latest change leadership and innovation resources in the S3T Topics portal, and the new resources in the curated S3T Tools portal. Macro Outlook Layoffs - where are the Tech