Food for Thoughts from Gugin
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Cross-Cultural Team Development in the Southern French Alps
Develop your team's intercultural competencies in one of Europe's largest nature reserves, Parc National du Mercantour. We can learn so much from nature and we want you to use wild nature as inspiration for your own and your team's development. For many years, Gugin...
I just say things as they are…
"I just say things as they are" is a phrase you might hear quite often. Maybe even without paying attention to it. If you - as we do in Gugin work with leadership development, conflict reconciliation and cultural identities you DO pay attention to phrases like that....
Changing Corporate Culture With Cultural Nudging
What is Cultural Nudging Cultural nudging is a concept where we can alter people's behaviour in a predictable way without forbidding them to choose other options. It is used a lot in architecture where you want people to move in a specific way and pace in a building....
Why Fighting Climate Change has to be embedded in Corporate Cultures
Fighting climate change has to be embedded in the corporate cultures for a number of reasons. Learn why and how you change the corporate culture
When we accept behaviour today we wouldn’t accept before
Why we accept behaviour we didn't accept before Unlike what we might initially think cultural values change over time. That is the truth for any culture - in fact no culture would be able to survice if it didn't adapt to the external environment all the time. When I...
Why Brexit might be the best thing that has happened to Europe in 30 years
The broken Family in Europe Imagine you belong to a big diversified family in Europe, where each part of the family lives in different places, do different things for a living, have different political perspectives and belong to different social groups. When you all...
Why leaving Facebook is the right thing to do
Why leaving Facebook is the right thing to do This article is about why I closed my Facebook account 2 months ago and why I feel it is one of the best decisions I have made in a very long time I actually started writing this article before Facebook fell down from the...
5 reasons you will never become a Leader
A lot of people want to become a leader. This article is about why you most likely will fail to become a leader. The article is also about what you can do yourself to change that situation. But you will probably find it is much harder than you anticipated.
Here is the one thing that resolves most cultural conflicts
Cultural conflicts in the workplace Most times when I do speeches or workshops I ask the audience if they have ever been in cultural conflicts they could have avoided if they had been more cultural intelligent at that time. Mostly 90 - 100% answer yes to that...
5 soft skills a leader should possess to create a strong corporate culture
Soft skills – hard currency.
It is a tough job being a leader today. First of all, you get bombarded with pieces of advice and recommendations about what you should do as a leader, how you should behave and not behave etc. The recommendations are all about the soft skills other people believe you need to have.
Focus on micro-inequities to avoid Cultural Conflicts becoming destructive
Almost all cultural conflicts start with micro-inequities that no one pay attention to. If you learn to do that you can make a huge difference to your organisation
Cultural Diversity is the key to Success for Global Companies
Taking advantage of cultural diversity is propable the biggest hidden resource in business today. Gugin has helped hundreds of companies around the world becoming better
Here are 9 reasons why you must have a strong company culture
Here is a reminder of why your company culture is your most important asset. Your company culture must be nurtured and cultivated like any other asset - otherwise, it loses its value. We have listed 9 good reasons why a strong company culture is crucial for any...
Leadership Keynote Speaker by Dr Finn Majlergaard
Leadership keynote speaker, Dr Finn Majlergaard delivers thought-provoking global leadership speeches and workshops all over the world, based on 25 years of experience with 600+ companies. Anyone can copy your product but no one can copy your culture. Learn to become the best in leadership
Integration of corporate cultures – how Gugin facilitates successfully?
Corporate culture integration is crucial when merging two organisations. Did you know that 2/3 of all mergers and acquisition fail to meet their original objectives due to cultural clashes? They fail because the organisations involved don’t have the expertise nor the...
Cultural Audit – Get the truth about your organisation
Cultural Audit - Discover the truth about your organisation Introduction Cultural audit is the process where we describe all the aspects of a particular organisational culture. Gugin has developed and refined a comprehensive framework that gives us all the insight we...
An employee betrays you. What do you do?
Most people have tried being betrayed by another person. How we deal with it in a personal setting can vary a lot depending on the circumstances and our personal attitudes. When it happens in a company when someone betrays the company in one or the other way, we need...
The Millennial Generation change the Cultural Patterns
The millennials are between 20 and 35 years old and they haven't lived a life without the internet. They are probably the most progressive, idealistic and tolerant generation the world has seen. Who are they and how are they going to change the world? The reason why I...
There is one thing worse than bad leadership
We are good at reducing bad leadership Most leaders and managers are well aware that the quality of their performance has a huge influence on the people they manage or lead. This is also why organisational feedback systems are so valuable because they indicate how and...
Artificial Intelligence :: How not to destroy your company culture
chatGPT sparked the AI race into warp speed leaving companies, legislators and everyone else partly paralysed about what that is going to mean to everything we know. Gugin has helped companies create the right company cultures for more than 20 years. We have never...
Be Global in anything you do everywhere in the world
It seems Hamlet is not alone with his whim. Born from a genius mind four centuries ago, it still holds true to describe one of the most difficult processes for any human being: Decision Making. It can be as complex as a multinational acquisition or as simple as what...
Future Cultural Challenges for Airlines and Airports – Full document
Executive Summary IATA has forecasted that passenger demand to double over 20 Years with the fastest-growing markets in Asia and Sub-saharan Africa. This is no surprise that the emerging and frontier market economies account for the biggest growth in the near future....
How working from home may damage your company culture
This article is about how working from home can damage your corporate culture. The money saved on sending people home because of COVID19 can easily be lost due to lover employee - and customer satisfaction. Read on The Excitement Many office workers around the world...
Why you should never use Hofstede to assess cultural differences
Understanding human behaviour has interested us at all times. Psychologists, philosophers, historians, artists and others have all made their contributions to describing human behaviour. Hofstede was one of the first, in the 1960'ies to look at human behaviour from a...
How to deal with tough dilemmas as a leader
Leadership is a challenging journey filled with tough dilemmas. As a leader, it is crucial to have the skills and strategies to navigate these difficult situations effectively. In this blog post, we will explore some examples of tough dilemmas and provide insights on...
The Object Oriented Organisation – The new paradigm in organisation theory
Introduction to the Object-Oriented Organisation Throughout our extensive experience working with companies worldwide, we have encountered numerous organisational challenges stemming from the effects of globalisation, the widespread distribution of work, and the...
Gugins Blog posts
- The potential curse of the next generation in family-owned companies 7. June, 2024 Finn Majlergaard
- How to deal with tough dilemmas as a leader 24. March, 2024 Finn Majlergaard
- Future Cultural Challenges for Airlines and Airports – Full document 1. June, 2023 Finn Majlergaard
- Here are 9 reasons why you must have a strong company culture 10. February, 2023 Finn Majlergaard
- Everyone in your organisation needs to be culturally intelligent. Here is why! 25. January, 2023 Finn Majlergaard
- An employee betrays you. What do you do? 21. September, 2022 Finn Majlergaard
- Cultural Dilemma 1: The Owner’s Daughter 20. May, 2022As leaders we are faced with dilemmas all the time. if you have a high level of Cultural intelligence you will reconcile them successfully The post Cultural Dilemma 1: The Owner’s Daughter first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- Cultural Diversity is the key to Success for Global Companies 16. May, 2022Taking advantage of cultural diversity is propable the biggest hidden resource in business today. Gugin has helped hundreds of companies around the world becoming better The post Cultural Diversity is the key to Success for Global Companies first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- Leadership Keynote Speaker by Dr Finn Majlergaard 3. May, 2022Leadership keynote speaker, Dr Finn Majlergaard delivers thought-provoking global leadership speeches and workshops all over the world, based on 25 years of experience with 600+ companies. Anyone can copy your product but no one can copy your culture. Learn to become the best in leadership The post Leadership Keynote Speaker by Dr Finn Majlergaard first […]Finn Majlergaard
- When Innovation dies it is too late to change 3. May, 2022Becoming innovative is difficult - staying innovative is harder - and when it fades it is almost always too late to change the culture The post When Innovation dies it is too late to change first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard