Free Tools

  • The IDEAS Framework lays out five key steps that great entrepreneurs and innovators master to “twist reality” and turn ideas into reality. This article was originally published on Fasctompany.com.  To download pdf click here

  • A Manual for Outthinking the Competition walks you through a step-by-step process for surmounting the seven critical hurdles that prevent companies from responding rapidly and creatively to new strategic challenges. Click here to download PDF.

  • The Seven Barriers to Strategic Thinking is workbook excerpt that outlines seven thinking habits that distinguish strategists from tacticians. Click here to download PDF.

  • The 100 Most Competitive Companies of Decade, the basis of much of Kaihan’s research, lists the 100 companies that have triggered a prolonged period of superior performance: who have consistently grown faster, produced higher profit margins, and generate more shareholder value than their peers over the course of a decade. Click here to download PDF.

  • Latest presentation. Click here to download my latest presentation

  • Challenge Definition form – which walks you through simple five-step process to define your “ultimate question" click here to download PDF.

  • 36 Stratagems with key questions – a list of the 36 stratagems, translated into modern business language, each accompanied with a brainstorming question to trigger you and your team’s strategic creativity, click here to download PDF.

  • Prioritization Matrix – a way to rapidly identify the ideas with the creates strategic and disruptive potential click here to download PDF.

Interviews

Outthinker intervew - Vistaprint. Click here to hear my interview with Wendy Cebula, North American President, who joined the company at an early stage and shares with us some of the key strategic choices that led this company to explosive growth, a successful IPO, and continued disruptive innovation against much larger competitors.

Outthinker intervew – Big Think. Click here to hear my interview co-founders Peter Hopkins and Victoria Brown, and learn what opportunity was so compelling that they quit sought-after production jobs at one PBS’s top media franchises to create something entirely new. 

Outthinker intervew – inVentiv Health. Click here to hear my interview with CEO Blane Walter and hear why this rapidly growing company may represent the unrecognizable future of the pharmaceutical industry.

Outthinker intervew - Eye-Buy-Direct. Click here to hear my recent interview with Roy Hessel, co-founder of Eye-Buy-Direct, and learn how he has built one of the top online retailers in the world and is transforming the eyewear industry.

Outthinker intervew - PetMD. Click here to hear my recent interview with Kim Schinnerer, co-founder of PetMD, and learn how his team plans to revolutionize how pet owners interact with their vets

Outthinker interview - Keiser University. Click here to hear my recent interview with Dr. Arthur Keiser, founder of of Keiser University.

Outthinker interview - Valley Forge Fabrics. Click here to hear my recent interview with Mikey Dobin, SVP of Valley Forge Fabrics.

Outthinker interview - ePrize. Click here to hear my recent interview with Josh Linkner, CEO of ePrize. Learn how ePrize has come to dominate its market and continues to stay ahead.

Outthinker interview - Kumon. Click here to hear my recent interview with Deven Klein, VP of Franchising with Kumon. Learn how being old can be new because your competition act like sheep, always going after the next fad.

 

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Hide A Dagger Behind A Smile Book

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

Innovation is not an option. It is a fundamental requisite of survival. Throughout history, innovative societies have dominated their less creative rivals, and innovative companies, their competition. Yet we remain ineffective in this critical skill because we have been our modern understanding of change, rooted in just a few hundred years of study, ignores inssights gleaned thousands of year prior.

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The Art of the Advantage Flash cards

The 36 Stratagems Flash Cards are a tool to familiarize yourself and your team with each of the 36 patterns of competition.

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The Art of the Advantage Training DVD

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Live Staged Event Mp3 File

In this 1 hour program, Kaihan will walk you through the seven most powerful strategies for triggering breakthrough growth for your company or career. Live staged event. MP3 file will be emailed directly to you after check-out.

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