Soft Power, Hard Problems with Sophie Krantz
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Golden Age or Depressed Decade? Breaking down the World Bank Global Economic Prospects
How leaders are deciding to spend their next ten years
Jun 12
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Sophie Krantz
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Finding the Way: Organisations building market positions where money and mandates failed
Relatively uncontested gaps that remain open in 2026.
Jun 4
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Sophie Krantz
2
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May 2026
Do the maths: Is there a market position from solving this hard problem?
Back-of-the-envelope: pricing the cost of a hard problem
May 28
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Sophie Krantz
3
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Latent, Not Lost
How existing assets become market positions
May 22
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Sophie Krantz
5
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Q1 Soft Power Brief: Hard Problems Become Market Positions
Five organisations profiled in market position card format. Hala Systems, M-KOPA, One Acre Fund, Living Goods, Tostan.
May 4
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Sophie Krantz
Beyond a Money or Mandate Starting Point
Calculate whether to deploy your capital, time, and talent - or walk away.
May 1
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Sophie Krantz
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I'm Sophie Krantz. I work with leaders to use their soft power to solve hard problems.
Leaders sitting on soft power yet aren’t using it to move the problems that actually matter, so their influence gets spent on defending the status quo…
May 1
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Sophie Krantz
3
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April 2026
The Barrier Keeping You Out May Already Be Gone
How to tell whether a chokepoint belongs to the problem - or to the institution that last tried
Apr 23
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Sophie Krantz
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The Crossover Point: The Economics of Solving Global Problems
The number that makes a hard problem a market position.
Apr 21
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Sophie Krantz
20:24
Calculating the Second Curve
The number that makes a hard problem a market position.
Apr 16
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Sophie Krantz
2
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March 2026
How to Make a Market Position from a Hard Problem
Lessons from a charity that runs like a hedge fund
Mar 25
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Sophie Krantz
3
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When White-Collar Jobs Go Missing
Why this job-displacement problem is more solvable than it looks
Mar 19
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Sophie Krantz
3
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