Soft Power, Hard Problems with Sophie Krantz

Hard Problems: What are they? What's the upside to solving them in 2026?

Hard problems persist. Are they getting easier - and more valuable - to solve?

Feb 21 • Sophie Krantz

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Soft Power: The Strategic Weapon

How to unlock outsized gains in a world awash with hard problems

Feb 18 • Sophie Krantz

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Turning China from 'risk' to solution partner

Leaders can shift from containing China to co‑designing with it, turning its scale and speed into shared leverage on hard global problems.

Feb 16 • Sophie Krantz

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Soft Power: Weak or Strategic Weapon?

How are leaders turning reputation into deal flow, resilience, and leverage?

Feb 13 • Sophie Krantz

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Soft Power: What is it? Does it matter in 2026?

Is there value in soft power? Is hard power set to win over the next decade?

Feb 11 • Sophie Krantz

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Middle Power, Bigger Game

Australia shifts from price-taker to architect in critical minerals, using alliances, ESG and market design to secure leverage in a fractured global…

Feb 10 • Sophie Krantz

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From Rules-Based Fiction to Value-Based Realism: A 2026 Playbook

Soft power only becomes useful when it produces agency. Values without leverage change little. What matters is whether your organisation is trusted and…

Feb 9 • Sophie Krantz

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January 2026

The 2025 Velocity Gap: Navigating Global Breakthroughs

When we look past chaos to compounding change, our focus, decisions, and trajectory shift. Here are 20 positive‑sum forces that spun faster in 2025.

Jan 16 • Sophie Krantz

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December 2025

2025 Spun Faster

When we look past chaos to compounding change, our focus, decisions, and trajectory shift. Here are 20 positive‑sum forces that spun faster in 2025.

Dec 19, 2025 • Sophie Krantz

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The Nobel or Noble Leader?

Why focus on leaders who open markets, minds and corridors of collaboration

Dec 10, 2025 • 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…

Dec 1, 2025 • Sophie Krantz

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November 2025

Local Immersion and Global Leverage: Achieving World-Class from a Single Location

Staying anchored locally does not mean staying small.

Nov 23, 2025 • Sophie Krantz

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