Free Business Tools

• Beliefs Workbook: Belief is contagious. It wins supporters. It's self-fulfilling. Here's how to get there when nagging, negative thoughts are holding you back.Click here to download PDF
  
  
• 17 Sources of Power - a Workbook : In this workbook I review the research on organizational power and synthesize it into 17 sources of power and provide a catalog of tactics you can you use to make things happen in your organization. Click here to download PDF
  
  
• A Year of Outthinking the Competition: Complete collection of Kaihan Krippendorrff’ 2012 fastcompany.com blog posts. Click here to download PDF
  
  
• Passion workbook - A collection of 14 excercises you and your team can use connect with the passion and purpose of what you do. Click here to download
  
  
• Financial Services Innovation - Summary of my research into companies that are disrupting the financial services industry. Click here to download
  
  
• Strategy Refresh Tool - A 10 minute exercise to assess whether you are on track and identify what parts of your strategy you want to adjust to reenergize, refresh, and reclaim strategic clarity. Click here to download ppt
  
  
• Strategy tracking tool: a simple matrix and daily practice to help keep you on the path to realizing your one-year strategy. Click here to download ppt
  
  
• Latest presentation. Click here to download my latest presentation
  
  
• 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.
  
  

• Outthink the Competition – The complete 2011 blog post by Kaihan Krippendorff click here to download PDF.

  
  
• Mavericks Who Outthink the Competition – The complete 2010 blog post by Kaihan Krippendorff click here to download PDF.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Challenge Definition form – which walks you through simple five-step process to define your “ultimate question" 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.
  
  
• Five Habits of Outthinkers Worksheet – A one-page worksheet to help you develop five habits that distinguish innovative strategic thinkers click here to download PDF.

Kaihan speaking at Google Australia

Outthinker interview - 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 interview – 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 interview – 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 interview - 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 interview - 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.