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Kaihan Krippendorff

Greater New York City Area

Business Strategy Keynote Speaker, Ex-McKinsey, CEO of Outthinker, and author of "Outthink the Competition" and three other books. Helps firms generate multi-million-dollar growth ideas, from Microsoft, TIAA-CREF and Purina to mid-caps and start-ups.

Developer of the "Fourth Option" approach, which applies 36 strategic patterns to rapidly reveal new strategic options.

Website: www.kaihan.net, Fastcompany blog: http://www.fastcompany.com/user/kaihan-krippendorff. CEO of Outthinker LLC (www.outthinker.com).

Expert is strategy, growth, and innovation.

"Kaihan shows that with a compelling idea anyone can change the world"
- Mohammed Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner, founder of Grameen Bank

"Kaihan’s groundbreaking work on strategy development changes the game for organizations facing an increasingly competitive environment.”
- Shannon Wallis, Global Director, Leadership Programs, Microsoft

"In just two hours Kaihan helped us generate an idea that tripled our revenue in three years."
- Regional head of financing business

"One of his stratagems - create a situation in which others benefit by us winning - gave us an idea that now represents 80% of our revenue."
- CEO of consumer products distribution company

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Author of "Outthink the Competition" (and three other books), CEO of Outthinker, and former McKinsey consultant, Kaihan helps growth firms create disruptive growth ideas, His clients range from Microsoft, VMWare, TIAA-CREF, Red Bull, and Nestle/Purina to innumerable mid-size firms and start-ups.

A recognized expert in growth strategy and competition, he writes one of the most popular bloggers on Fastcompany.com and is highly sought after public speaker.

MBA from Columbia Business School, BS in Finance from Wharton, BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and regular strategy lecturer at Wharton Executive Education.

Sample results of Kaihan's "Fourth Option" methodology include:
- A regional finance firm applies the strategy "exchange a brick for jade" and generates an idea which triples their revenue in three years
- A team at the publisher Macmillan applies the strategy "coordinate the uncoordinated" which accelerates an idea which turns into swoonreads.com, a cutting edge innovation that puts the publisher in front of the self-publishing phenomenon
- An Australian consumer products distributor applies "befriend a distant enemy" to form an alliance that today generates 80% of its revenue

“We’ve exposed thousands of executives of growth firms around the world to Kaihan Krippendorff’s concrete and practical stratagems for dealing with competitive threats and he’s been universally well received by our tough and discerning audiences.”
- Verne Harnish,CEO Gazelles inc.

“Kaihan shows that with a bold idea anyone can change the world.”
- Mohammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

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Kaihan Krippendorff answered

How do big organizations bring a sense of "belonging" to their employees?

Creating a sense of belonging is not only possible, it is critical. My research indicates that there are five key ingredients necessary for a business to scale. A sense of belonging or purpose is one of them.

A lot of research supported the fact that that salary has little impact on developing a sense of belong. As long as people are receiving what they deem to be "fair," adding additional salary or bonus-based incentives have little effect on engagement.

The key, I believe, is purpose. If you can create a compelling purpose that your employees want to believe in and if you authentically live for that purpose from the CEO and board level all the way down, you will create the "soft power" or "moral force" that enables great organizations to succeed.

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Kaihan has this unique trait to know the pulse of the audience. He is not only a great analyst of what strategies can benefit today's corporations but also has that unique style to make it simple to understand and even silmpler to follow.

Bal Krishna Shukla Source: LinkedIn

I attended one of Kaihans presentations and was impressed with his easy style of delivery but, more importantly, with his ability to make strategy practical. As a presenter myself, I was taken by his willingness to use his strategy development tools to bring the subject to life, rather than just talk about it.

Brian Hinchcliffe Source: LinkedIn

Kaihan presented the Art of the Advantage to our Vistage group. The presentation was excellent. The methods he suggested for creating new strategies for our businesses were very thought provoking and generated many new "out of the box" ideas. Highly recommended.

Dave Larson Source: LinkedIn

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