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The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz

A podcast that shares insights on what’s shifting in the world, across socioeconomic, geopolitical, and technological areas, and how it can shape the way leaders think, act, and lead globally. It helps leaders gain a global edge. www.sophiekrantz.com

business management

All Episodes

16:12

The Cost of Misalignment: Overcoming Stakeholder Lag...

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/24

Today, we’re diving into a piece by global strategist Sophie Krantz about a critical challenge facing leaders in 2025: what happens when your vision of the future clashes with that of your board, investors, or even your own team?.Sophie argues that many stakeholders are stuck in linear thinking, assuming the stability of the past in a world where shocks - from geopolitics to AI - are constant. This creates friction and stalls progress. We see it when a CEO wants to explore new trade corridors, but

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6:36

Blurred Lines, Misaligned Decisions

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/23

Leaders don’t make decisions alone. They sit in rooms with boards, executives, regulators, investors, customers, communities, and partners across sectors. At times, we may share the same table yet see the world - and our business within it - entirely differently.A significant cost in 2025 comes when stakeholders fail to recognise how the world is shifting. When worldviews clash inside organisations and across partners, momentum drains and agency shrinks. Instead of reshaping how we compete and

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0:53

Global Exposure Shifts What’s Possible

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/21

Exposure to global competition pushes leaders from safe, incremental goals to transformative outcomes.Discover more by Sophie Krantz: https://www.sophiekrantz.com/about This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sophiekrantz.com

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0:46

See More, Play Smarter

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/21

Zooming out to global signals enables leaders to play a smarter game than those reacting only to local pressures.Discover more by Sophie Krantz: https://www.sophiekrantz.com/about This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sophiekrantz.com

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0:42

Speed from Global Leverage

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/21

Leaders who tap global partners and platforms move faster, mobilizing resources more efficiently than local-only peers.Discover more by Sophie Krantz: https://www.sophiekrantz.com/about This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sophiekrantz.com

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0:41

Your Circle = Your Ceiling

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/21

Expanding into diverse, global networks multiplies both ambition and agency beyond what small circles allow.Discover more by Sophie Krantz: https://www.sophiekrantz.com/about This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sophiekrantz.com

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0:54

The Risk of Only Looking Inward

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/21

Inward benchmarking reinforces the status quo, while outward vision reveals hidden opportunities and accelerates action.Discover more by Sophie Krantz: https://www.sophiekrantz.com/about This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sophiekrantz.com

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0:58

The Ceiling of Local Thinking

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/21

Ambition stays small when measured locally; benchmarking globally raises the bar and unlocks bigger goals.Discover more by Sophie Krantz: https://www.sophiekrantz.com/about This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sophiekrantz.com

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15:01

Looking Up. Looking Out.

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/19

In this episode, we’re discussing “Gazing Up: Global Strategy from Local Roots,” based on a powerful metaphor by global strategist Sophie Krantz to redefine business strategy.The piece looks at the Australian Space Agency’s logo. At first glance, it’s a satellite view of Australia, symbolising a ‘look down’ perspective. This is how many leaders operate: focused on local markets, domestic rivals, and immediate challenges. While detailed and manageable, this view can trap leaders in a comfort zone,

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6:37

Shifting Gaze

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/17

In Australia, many things on the land can kill you. Venomous snakes. Crocodiles. Redback spiders. Funnel-webs hiding in shoes. In the water there are sharks, box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopuses, and stonefish. It’s a land where it makes sense to keep your eyes down.And yet, this same country has one of the world’s richest histories of looking up at the stars.There is always much to manage on the ground, wherever we are. Yet when our gaze stays down, we miss the stars. And with them, we risk missing

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19:21

The Ladder to Global Impact: An Updated Path to Progress

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/15

Are you climbing the wrong ladder? Many leaders find traditional career paths, focused on internal status and local wins, leave them unprepared for a world of global challenges and constant disruption. This podcast introduces Sophie Krantz’s Ambition × Agency Ladder, a new path to progress designed for our complex world.Instead of a narrow, solo climb, this ladder expands, fostering collaboration and impact beyond organisational boundaries. It’s about aligning your intent to play bigger (ambition)

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9:09

This Ladder Has an Expiry Date

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/12

A few years ago, I jumped off the ladder. The safe, known ladder. The one that promised status, certainty, and steady progress. Yet it wasn’t heading where I wanted to go.The higher I climbed, the narrower it felt. Each step was about defending position, not expanding vision. It rewarded predictability, not adaptability. And while it looked solid inside the organisation, it didn’t prepare me - or those around me - for what was happening in the world beyond.Since then, I’ve been on another ladder -

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16:38

Flow, Not Friction: Navigating a Borderless World

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/04

This episode builds off the article “Flow, Not Friction” by global strategist Sophie Krantz. It argues that traditional views of a world defined by static borders are increasingly obsolete. We explore how business leaders benefit from adopting a dynamic perspective, recognising the constant cross-border flow of services, data, capital, and ideas. The episode highlights various powerful, freely available mapping tools such as the Connectivity Atlas, TeleGeography's Submarine Cable Map, and NASA Night

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7:50

Flow, Not Friction

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/09/02

Doing more with less, achieving market-beating results, or thinking bigger is difficult when the way we work is shaped by company or country culture. Anchored to the status quo, we tend default to small, safe gains.And yet, there’s a direct link between seeing more, making more meaning, and doing more. With smart tools, technologies, and sharper strategic questions, we can see further, decide smarter, and move beyond the status quo.Let’s do that now. This is a public episode. If you would like to

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14:10

Beyond the Corner: Uncovering Opportunity in Uncertainty

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/29

This episode, drawing inspiration from global strategist Sophie Krantz, argues that businesses often mistakenly focus on what they can directly control when faced with uncertainty, an instinct compared to an artist focusing only on a single dot in a pointillist painting. This narrow perspective, termed the illusion of control, prevents leaders from seeing the wider landscape of both risks and opportunities. Citing Hans Rosling’s book “Factfulness,” the episode highlights how negative biases can

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8:39

Cornering Less Control

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/27

In 2025, much in the world that affects doing business is out of our control. Trade tensions, shifting capital flows, supply shocks, new technologies, and demographic shifts move faster than we can manage. The instinct is to shrink back into our corner, where costs, teams, or operations feel controllable.Yet if we stay in our corner, we miss the bigger picture. And often, that is where the real opportunities lie.We can step out of the corner - even just for an hour - by asking questions that zoom us

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2:58

From Static Maps to Dynamic Networks

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/21

Most leaders still see the world as fixed borders.We plan by country, by region, by the drawn lines on a map. Yet business now runs on flows - of data, capital, talent, and ideas - that cross those lines every second. If our leadership model stays static while the world moves, we miss what matters. Get full access to Crossing Borders with Sophie Krantz at www.sophiekrantz.com/subscribe

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12:18

Outthinking Competition with Free Strategic Prompts

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/21

This episode of The Global Edge builds on a recent by Sophie Krantz, global strategist, titled “The Cost of Not Asking: Outthink – not outspend – your competition with free prompts that reveal blind spots and new opportunities”. We explore how organisations can gain a competitive advantage by leveraging strategic and global intelligence. This involves looking beyond traditional market analysis to encompass insights from economics, technology, politics, culture, and society worldwide. The podcast

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8:10

The Cost of Not Asking

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/19

Any organisation - whether one person or 10,000 - can learn and leverage strategic and global intelligence to craft a competitive edge.Let’s do that, now. Get full access to Crossing Borders with Sophie Krantz at www.sophiekrantz.com/subscribe

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12:42

Globalising Expertise for New Revenue Streams

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/18

This edition of The Global Edge, draws from gobal strategist Sophie Krantz’s article “From Hidden Expertise to Global Revenue.” The focus is on how businesses can leverage their internal, often unrecognised expertise to generate international revenue. It explains the evolution from traditional exporting, which required significant physical presence, to the first wave of digital transformation that reduced some costs. The core argument focuses on the next wave driven by agentic AI, which consists of

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