The Leading Edge
The Leading Edge is a new thought leadership series, offering in-depth insights into the key challenges, innovations, and evolving dynamics of the contract and commerce landscape.
We’re bringing these insights to our community in a new way – through a curated series of articles and accompanying podcasts featuring expert voices and industry leaders.
Podcasting since 2025 • 15 episodes
The Leading Edge
Latest Episodes
The Risk No Board Is Talking About: CEO Burnout
In this episode, we examine CEO burnout not only as a personal wellbeing issue, but as an overlooked leadership and governance risk. We explore how the very traits boards prize in senior leaders – resilience, accountability, and relentless driv...
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Episode 14
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24:32
Infrastructure's hidden constraint: is commercial capability your strategic bottleneck?
In this episode, we explore why commercial and contract management capability has become the hidden constraint in modern infrastructure delivery. As infrastructure shifts toward cross-vertical integration – spanning utilities, digital platforms...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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28:30
Benchmark report 2025 – The race is on: navigating uncertainty through CCM resilience
In this episode, we explore how organizations are responding to a world where uncertainty is no longer an exception but the operating environment. The 2025 CCM Benchmark reveals widening capability gaps, the accelerating role of AI, and the cri...
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Season 1
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28:29
Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater: findings from the global contracting benchmark
In this episode, we explore how to move from rule-following to results – building systems, skills, and mindsets that make federal contracting adaptive, data-driven, and future-ready. Help us to help you by contributing to the newest US Public P...
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18:56
Connected Contracts: Understanding the Power of Clause Linkages
Contracts don’t operate clause by clause — they function as integrated systems. The WorldCC Contract Clause Linkages Guide reveals how decisions made in one section of a contract ripple across others, influencing commercial outcomes, operationa...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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20:01
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