G3T S3T FOR CHANGE

In this edition of S3T:
• Macroeconomics: Yes, inflation is slowing. No, the central banks do NOT deserve credit. Return to office is dead. The way economies are built is changing.
• Emerging Tech: OpenAl's power struggle. GenAl drives groupthink among professionals who use it. Researchers trick LLMs into revealing their training data.
• Nature Notes: The Hardiness Zones are changing. Where to read financial disclosures. Nature-friendly holiday shopping.

In this age of acceleration when so much will be new, unfamiliar territory, it will be vital for us to spend time in those activities and spaces that are timeless. This may feel impossible but you and your family and your team can actually do it. Here’s how to do it, and why it will actually help you find a higher level of success.

• Macroeconomy: BF verdict, interest rates and consumer financials make for a volatile mix. Global indicators on dollar strength and emerging market resilience. Claudia Goldin wins the Economics Nobel Prize.
• Emerging Tech: Why the Ethereum Killers are losing:
• Blockchains are in a consolidation phase, but blockchain's layered architecture will allow blockchains more coexistence than your typical zero-sum game industry consolidation.
• Nature Notes: Getting outdoors to see if it's a special day or not. Plus: guides to wheelchair-accessible trails and outdoor destinations.
•For Paid Memberships: Taking care of you in Q4 and Resources to smooth your path amid all the year-end business.

In this edition of S3T:
• Macroeconomy: Strong growth amid polycrisis worries and concerns about the potential of the Select 7 to drag the market down.
• Emerging Tech: AI Safety, new solutions for proof of personhood and why they are so important. Plus: Jobs of tomorrow and which ones will be automated vs augmented by AI - detailed report.
• Nature Notes: The top places to live all have a strong connection to nature. Explore the top options for the well being of you and your family.
• For Paid Memberships: The #1 question to ask your team members during annual reviews.
Opinions expressed are those of the individuals and do not reflect the official positions of companies or organizations those individuals may be affiliated with. Not financial advice. Authors or guests may hold assets discussed.

Your Countdown Guide to the Top 5 Ways to FinishStrong in 2023. Plus: Financial Innovation, Learning Path for Healthcare Leaders (paying members), Crypto Blue Chips.

In this edition of S3T: What change leaders are talking about this week:
• Macroeconomy: IMF's Gloomy outlook for global economy;
Disney up, Louis Vutton down; the global cost burden of mental health.
• Emerging Tech: Fallout from the SBF Trial; longer timeline for Al in healthcare? Artifical empathy; GenAl for RFPs; NSA launches Al unit.
• For Paid Memberships: Change leadership: Kindling an ownership mindset in your own team.

In this edition of S3T: What leaders are talking about this week
• Special Feature: Indigenous People's Day Oct 9: Indigenous
People are Innovators worthy to be our mentors. Indigenous Doulas are improving maternal health outcomes. Looking back: How Native Hawaiian Women regained their power to rule.
• Macro Economics: Job Market normalizing, Real Estate outlook,
Global vs Local Economics.
• Emerging Tech: LMMs, Fine-grained control for Autonomous Language Agents, Telegram's Crypto Capabilities and why they're not available in the US.
• For Paid Memberships: 6 Tactics for Kindling an Ownership
Mindset in Stakeholders.

In this edition of S3T: Latest insights and need to know updates for change leaders:
• Macroeconomics: The upside of a Bitcoin ETF vs. near-term bearish sentiment. A Euro-backed stablecoin is gaining ground.
• Emerging Tech: Crypto Legislation, CBDC and Surveillance Risks:
Digital Currencies and Human Rights
• AI Tools: Meta AI product releases, CPU/GPU, ChatGPT web browsing is back, New AI Data Analysis tool to offer private cloud edition.
• Nature Notes: S3T helping fund Stripe Climate initiatives, Birdcast lets you track of bird migration this fall.
• For Paid Memberships: Gain an edge by kindling an ownership mindset in vendors and partners.

In this edition of S3T: What leaders are talking about this week
• Macroeconomics: Healthcare costs spiking to unprecedented levels in 2024. What's next for the Fear index? Where high networth indivduals are migrating across the globe.
• Emerging Tech Key Themes for Leaders: More AI Tools and
Solutions, big uptick in VC funding, the company introducing Asia to blockchain.
• For Paid Memberships: Agile getting fragile: Today's change initiatives don't fit neatly into agile. How to adjust. One key ingredient that makes the biggest difference regardless of what delivery method you use.

In this edition of S3T: What leaders are talking about this week
• Emerging Tech Key Themes for Leaders: Open Source LLMs for Regulated industries, Cross Chain Financial Settlements, Blockchain Phones
• Need to Know Economics: Tearing down the Paper Ceiling - Plus:
Plight of Unions
• For Paid Memberships: Talent Strategy Briefing: Inspiring and
Retaining Talent in the GenAl Era. End of year annual performance review season is just around the corner. So are Autumn All Hands, and Q4 Town Halls. Rarely has there been a more challenging time for crucial conversations about purpose and performance. How to proceed.

This week I had the chance to talk with John Vandivier about the future of work and learning, with high value provocative insights for: • Talent Leaders who need to understand how the talent market and the learning markets are evolving (and in some ways merging)
• Education Leaders who are committed to empowering learners of all ages
• Individuals planning their learning paths and careers

Welcome to the Aug 25 2nd Anniversary Edition:
• S3T Turns 2!!! - Yes, the very first edition of S3T was published August 21, 2021. Reflecting back on the journey so far, and what's next for the S3T Community.
• Change Leadership Skills: A starting point planner for driving your first change leadership effort. Feels scary, but you can do it.
• Macroeconomics: Central Bank Digital Currency projects world wide, BRICS outlook, Sources of inflation in healthcare
• Nature Notes: Rethinking Weeds and Necrofauna
• For Paying Members: 4 Guardrails for GenAI in Healthcare, plus Industry Brief: Pharmacy Benefits Managers under increased scrutiny.

In this edition of the weekly S3T Newsletter:
• Change Leadership Skills: How the Regulatory Impact
Assessment framework can help you work with regulators and governance teams to introduce new innovations.
• Macroeconomics: Bitcoin in high inflation economies and the problem with status quo monetary systems. Healthcare economics..
• Emerging Tech: Deeper perspectives on the risks of AI; how Visa hopes to make crypto payments easier.
• Nature Notes: Tracking down one of the last of the Hawaiian
Honeycreepers.
• For Paying Members: Deeper Dive on Moral Hazard, Plus:
Resources for building your GenAl skills

• Change Leadership Skills: The constant emergence of new technologies presents a specific set of dilemmas for technology-related governance teams and regulators.
• Macroeconomics: Corporate opportunism creates the kind of inflation that interest rates don't address. Crypto as a wedge issue for GOP.
• Emerging Tech: Stack Overflow rolls out an experiment in AI-based semantic search. For Paying Members: test drive of MIT Supermind Ideator.
Supermind Ideator.

• Change Leadership Skills: Use this content filter to accelerate your learning and impact.
• Macroeconomics: China is investing in the global south, health inequity is costing trillions,
• Emerging Tech: Dawn of conversational interfaces for robots, Crypto finding a home in the Netherlands, Tech startups are back
• Just for Fun: An inspiring win-win for South African people and nature; The long history of Lox

Plus: Macro economy outlook, ML with Code Interpreter, Llama 2,
FedNow kills float, AOS Checklist...

• Change Leadership Skills: How to target the right kind of change:
being selective about the kinds of change you decide to drive.
• Macroeconomics: Wages aren't keeping up with inflation. What that means for your most vulnerable customers and community members.
• Emerging Tech: GenAI and Large Language Models are going to impact data protection, governance and compliance.
• For Paying Members: a 12-month playbook for GenAi tailored to CDOs, CISOs, CIOs, and CMOs. Succinct lists of top priorities to include in your 2024 planning and budget.

• Change Leadership Skills: what makes a change leader; why change leadership is the top skill of the 21st Century
• Macroeconomics: Ripple's win against SEC and what it means for financial innovation; midyear economic outlooks - 8 key trends for the rest of 2023 and 2024
• Emerging Tech: Blockchain-based carbon offsets; ChatPDF, a new way to dialogue with research papers; how the Fediverse figures into decentralization
• Just for Fun: honey and its types; the Audubon Society Photography Awards

Change leadership: how to synergize activism and innovation in your work
• Macroeconomics: positive moderation
•Emerging tech: AI and the future of content creation, Bitcoin updates, chip manufacturing in ongoing trade war between China and the U.S.
• Just for fun: mango sticky rice, northern perula warblers

Change Leadership: When your team members come from different versions of America - 4 Principles for Team Unity
Politically Divisive Era.
• Economic Briefing: Consumer Confidence Up, Commercial Real Estate won't recover til 2040, US Dollar's future
• Emerging Tech Briefing: ChatGPT Plugins and Security Risks
Popcorn worthy debate on Crypto compliance, Why public blockchain is vital, Tokenomics.
• Win-win for Native American heritage preservation, environmental protection and food industries.

Russias Coup-Feud, Income vs Inflation, BIS Blueprint, Closed Loop Digital Wallets, Druid Heights, Shared Habitat, Birria, and more.

Gain actionable new insights on how to drive change by building effective coalitions. I've researched real-world coalitions and curated some of the best examples and guides that are most likely to offer value for your work.

Father’s Day story about a $15 car and a can of beans illustrates how ingenuity goes into overdrive when you get specific about what you are unwilling to accept. In addition this week’s episode provides a concise summary of the latest on financial innovation, AI, genetics data privacy, geopolitics, and macro economics.

Some people see what’s coming and help others get ready for it, but most people don’t. What’s the difference? Strategic Foresight. It’s a skill that anyone can develop - and it’s a vital component of change leadership.

As a change leader you will frequently ask for decisions that challenge the status quo. Learn how effective empathy and a partnership mindset can help you obtain needed decisions and drive positive outcomes for stakeholders.

Wheelchair progress! Jobs, Real Estate Shift, AI Tools, Econ drama, BTC inflation narrative 2.0, Potato Pizza and more!

Your team needs to know that you've got their back. But as a change leader, you also don't want to signal that results don't matter or that careless mistakes are ok. So how do you walk that line between empowerment and accountability?

Market optimism, AI empathy, Microsoft and EPIC, Healthcare startup woes, Stablecoin reserve shifting, Ice cream recipes, Fireflies and more…

You hear a lot about continuous learning. You don’t hear much about how to do continuous learning and building the future while managing the obligations of the present. You need to know how to do both without burning out your team and your self.

The Canton Network, Daml, Securities Clarity Act, AI reasoning, Ledger’s Lessons, Lemon Meringue Pie, Rookeries near you…

Some kinds of conflict are rooted in true dilemmas caused by Wicked Problems. This episode shares a proven pattern for overcoming conflict and collaboratively solving Wicked Problems.

Debt Ceiling, Cost of Living, Certainty as a Service, Proof of Personhood, JOMO, burnout, Worldcoin, May Apples

Change Leaders often must deal with conflict. Here are 6 proven options you and your team can use to resolve conflict, create better understanding and drive change successfully. The S3T newsletter accompanying this episode has a handy chart summarizing the 6 Options as well.

Exclusive interview with mobility rights advocate Dan Dorszynski on driving change in how the airline industry prioritizes the needs of people who depend on wheelchairs.

Sometimes change leaders and their teams or partners need to form a resistance. Learn the 5 elements that enable a successful resistance.

India vs China, Halo, Layer 2 blues, Africa, Crypto gets professional, AI coaches, High Island, French-Mex

Learn about the 3 places resistance comes from and how to not only deal with resistance effectively but also turn it to your advantage.

Mini-Laterals, Rethinking Tech Debt, Crypto hearings, Mistrust, High Yields, Unstaking, Curries, Endangered Rivers.

The more focused you are on changing things the more focused you’ll have to be on your relationship with your stakeholders. Here’s how successful working partnership are forged.

Mild recession, Middle class, Uninsured deposits, AutoGPT, LLM thoughts, Crypto market cap winners, Tooth mikes, Outdoor work…

How to help your team choose a change leadership project - and be ready to own and drive the change successfully.

Leashing the economy, Binance, medical algorithms, great transformations, lemurs and more!

People have an amazing capacity for sustained commitment, yet we rarely tap into it. Here’s how to build commitment - yours and your teams - so you can overcome challenges and achieve the needed change you are working so hard to bring.

Q1, BRICS, G7, VC spring, GPT Bans, Bard Test, Vector DBs, Snails, Olives

To drive change successfully in an organization we and our teams need Big Picture thinking and Detailed thinking. One gives you proactivity. The other gives you precision. Here’s how.

Hyperinflation, Sick Banks, IP laundering, Big Consulting, Lab meat, Layer 2s, Spicy Margaritas and more!