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
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.