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Your leadership team can always name three options. The one that actually changes your trajectory is never on that list.
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The Move You're Not Seeing

I've known Kaihan Krippendorff for over a decade. He's the author of Outthink the Competition and the Proximity, and one of the sharpest strategic thinkers I know. 


We got into one of the best ideas he's ever shared with me: what he calls the Fourth Option, the move most leadership teams never see because they stop at three.


I broke down why in this week's article, where you'll find a clip from our conversation. The full interview is linked at the bottom if you want the whole thing.


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Ashiana's fourth option: how they reinvented senior living instead of renovating it.


Most real estate companies pitch amenities. Ashiana Housing found something more powerful: seniors don't want to be taken care of, they want to be in control. Revisit how a failed early experiment led them to reinvent senior living in India, and what it can teach you about designing for how your customers actually want to feel.

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