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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

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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7:24

From Hidden Expertise to Global Revenue

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/16

Most companies, from independent consultants to multinationals, hold specialised, high-value expertise that clients benefit from yet rarely see directly. It lives in methods, frameworks, processes, and institutional knowledge built over years. This expertise is latent: often taken for granted internally, seldom packaged for others to use, and frequently invisible to the markets that could benefit from it most.Today, it can be assessed and packaged more easily than ever - and it is becoming an

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14:16

Born Global Youth: Lessons on Driving Global Change

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/13

This episode advocates for leveraging the ingenuity and perspective of young people to address global challenges. Building on work by global strategist, Sophie Krantz, it argues that youth possess a unique “born-global” mindset, unconstrained by traditional boundaries and quick to adopt new technologies, making them powerful agents of change. The podcast highlights various youth-led initiatives across different sectors, from road safety and climate education to food security and mental health,

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7:56

Beyond Permission: Building Without the Gatekeepers

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/11

It’s hard to achieve outsized results by copying what has worked before. For market-beating, positive-sum outcomes, the advantage goes to those who learn from what’s working elsewhere and leverage it to leapfrog the status quo.What’s one of the most underused sources of that leverage? Youth.In most parts of the world, those under 20 have grown up in a digitally connected world. They are, in effect, born global.This term has been used for companies designed to operate internationally from day one -

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12:46

Building Beyond Constraint: Smart Strategies for...

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/10

Drawing on recently published insights from Global Strategist Sophie Krantz and various case studies, this episode explores the challenges leaders face when established systems, such as procurement, regulations, and funding pathways, hinder innovation and progress. It argues that instead of confronting these outdated structures, successful leaders often find ‘workarounds’, strategically building beyond constraints to create new markets and deliver novel solutions. The examples provided, ranging from

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8:27

Compete Against the Constraint

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/08/05

While many of us remain stuck - blocked by outdated systems that weren’t designed for what we’re trying to do - there’s a circle of leaders thinking globally, building boldly, and solving in smarter ways. Being stuck may stem from:* A procurement process that rewards incumbents and locks out smaller or newer players, even if their solutions are smarter or more sustainable.* Barriers to accessing global talent, driven by external systems like visas and tax laws, and internal defaults like legacy

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9:23

What If You Built a Billion-Dollar Company Without...

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/07/31

Today, we’re exploring a revolutionary concept recently written about by global strategist, Sophie Krantz: it’s now possible to build a billion-dollar company without knowing how to code. This challenges us to use AI to create valuable solutions that can ‘shift systems’. This unprecedented opportunity is driven by ‘vibe coding’. Popularised by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy in early 2025, vibe coding means humans focus on the vision and outcome, while AI handles all the technical details. You

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5:18

Agency Over Expectation

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/07/29

What If You Built a Billion-Dollar Company Without Knowing How to Code?That was the question posed to a small group of us recently. This wasn’t a hyped-up pitch or a theoretical debate. It was a challenge, set in an online room filled with serious global professionals who come together to think and act bigger.The task? Build an AI-enabled tech solution that makes a billion dollars.Why? Because it’s now possible. And not through vast investment, a large team of technical experts, or deep knowledge of

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8:20

Unearthing Latent Value for Global Business Growth

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/07/27

Today we’re exploring latent value, the untapped earnings, market share, and influence that businesses often leave dormant in their processes, know-how, underused assets, and overlooked markets. This builds on the work of global strategist, Sophie Krantz.In today’s climate, instead of doing more, global success means doing smarter and being relevant. This is where leverage comes in – it’s about turning your existing capabilities into a commercial advantage. Even small and mid-sized firms can now

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9:59

Navigating Fractured Globalisation: New Cross-Border...

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/07/20

In this episode, we build on recent work by global strategist Sophie Krantz, and dive into how businesses are navigating today’s fractured globalisation, a landscape where the traditional playbook for international trade is no longer effective. Despite talk of its end, globalisation persists, continually reshaped by geopolitical rivalry, technological advancements, and climate urgency.With global trade still accounting for nearly 60% of global GDP, the question isn’t whether to engage globally, but

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8:53

The New Global Value Landscape

The Global Edge with Sophie Krantz ·

2025/07/12

Today, we’re diving into the dynamic shift in global value creation, a transformation highlighted by global strategist, Sophie Krantz. Just a few years ago, value was often locked into traditional, low-margin industries, with slow movement of goods and limited global visibility. But that’s changing, and changing quickly.The biggest signal of this change? Intangible assets. Things like intellectual property, data, software, design, and brand equity are now central to how economies generate innovation

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