All Kaihan Books

Outthink The Competition

How Innovative Companies and Strategists See Options Others Ignore

Driving Innovation From Within

Employees are the number one source of innovative growth options and the only remaining source of sustainable competitive advantage. Arming them with the skills and tools necessary to innovate on a continual basis is of paramount importance to any organization with aspirations to remain relevant in the future.

Bestsellers

Outthink The Competition

USE THE 36 ANCIENT CHINESE STRATEGIES TO SEIZE THE COMPETITIVE EDGE

  • The Outthinker Playbook: 5 Stratagems used by leading companies
  • The 8Ps Framework: Eight Dimensions of Innovation
  • Develop a culture of creativity and innovation
  • Learn a process to keep good ideas and experiments flowing

How Innovative Companies and Strategists See Options Others Ignore

Driving Innovation From Within

MASTER THE FIVE ELEMENTS OF CHANGE TO REINVENT YOUR PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND ORGANIZATION

  • Can you activate your employees to have the intent to innovate?
  • Do you understand what the market needs, what the organization needs, and your organization’s strategy?
  • Are you able to create lots of interesting options, ie, do you have the creative capacity to generate ideas for innovation?

Arming your employees with the skills and tools necessary to innovate on a continual basis is of paramount importance to any organization with aspirations to remain relevant in the future.

More books by and featuring Kaihan

Hide A Dagger Behind a Smile

Today’s global economy is a battleground. To survive and thrive, you’ll need every weapon you can get. Microsoft, Sony, and Starbucks use business practices based on the ancient Chinese military text The Thirty-Six Stratagems – now you can, too.

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The Way Of Innovation

The Way Of Innovation Inside The Way of Innovation, corporate strategist Kaihan Krippendorff explains how you can adapt and thrive by recognizing, understanding, and utilizing the ancient Asian approach to innovation.

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The Art Of The Advantage

Contrary to commonly held beliefs, strength and resources play minor roles in a company s ability to beat the competition. Instead, the ability to conceive of unorthodox strategies that the competition will choose not to copy is the key to gaining a competitive edge.

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An essential framework for continuous innovation

Transformation is no longer a short-lived initiative. It is not a program. It is not linear. Instead, the world’s leading organizations now embrace transformation as a challenging, stretching, exciting and essential constant in their lives. Welcome to the age of perpetual transformation.

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Four transformation traps and how to avoid them

Transformation is not a neat theory, but a human imperative in our fast-changing times. Transformation has never been more important and the human side of transformation is now, at long last, being fully appreciated.

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Using the IDEAS Process to Build a Framework for Resilience

Building Resilient Organizations is focused on identifying what sets these enterprises apart, exploring the nature of resilience for organizations.

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Overcoming the Resistance to Behavioral Change

An indispensable resource for you and your organization as you embark on the exciting and challenging journey of digital transformation

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Perpetual Transformation

Practical Tools, Inspiration and Best Practice to Constantly Transform Your World

Transformation is no longer a short-lived initiative. It is not a program. It is not linear. Instead, the world’s leading organizations now embrace transformation as a challenging, stretching, exciting and essential constant in their lives. Welcome to the age of perpetual transformation.

The Transformation Playbook

Insights, Wisdom and Best Practices to Make Transformation Reality

Transformation is not a neat theory, but a human imperative in our fast-changing times. Transformation has never been more important and the human side of transformation is now, at long last, being fully appreciated.

Praise from the Industry

“The illusion of improbability. The genius of seeing how possibilities have changed. The willingness to experiment with the unexpected. Kaihan Krippendorff’s masterful illustration of how these factors lead newcomers to topple seemingly invincible incumbents will change how you think. Don’t just be a thinker, get this book and be an Outthinker!”
– Rita Mcgrath
Columbia Business School Professor, Best-Selling Author of Seeing Around Corners, and Thinkers50 #1 Ranked Strategy Thought Leader
“In Outthink the Competition, Kaihan underscores the strategic power of being able to see, intelligently select, and pursue new options that your competition overlooks. This ability is the starting spark of all great growth stories and it is a critical skill for leaders to master. If you want to continue out-innovating the competition, take a closer look at the systematic process outlined in this book.”
– Daniel Amos
CEO, Aflac
“I always say that growing your business is a thinking game. Kaihan Krippendorff’s Outthink the Competition offers a practical process for designing strategies and innovation options to drive growth and disrupt your competitors. An engaging read with compelling stories, entrepreneurs and corporate leaders alike should read this book if they want to strengthen their competitive advantage or build a new one.”
– Tiffani Bova
Global Growth Evangelist, Salesforce – WSJ Bestselling Author, Growth IQ
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