Food for Thoughts from Gugin
Read all our blog postsThe Gugin blog posts on how you can create a better, more agile and more competitive corporate culture are all here
5 Best things you can do for your multicultural team
Making everyone happy and motivated is difficult. If the group is very diverse it might seem almost impossible – but it is not – read on
The Nobel peace Prize to Europe – A Warning
I am always looking forward to see who are honored with the Nobel peace prize. Usually the winner of this prestigious award has done a lot to promote peace or fight injustice in a part of the world that deserves international attention - a Nobel peace prize...
Check if your colleagues are cultural intelligent
The not so cultural intelligent Colleague - a true story You are a sales representative for a large global software company in the United Kingdom. You consider yourself cultural intelligent as you have worked in many countries around the world in many different...
How to successfully screw up a business meeting
It happens all the time - we screw up a business meeting. We have an important business meeting coming up (first meeting with mother-in-law included) and we need it go well. We are well-prepared. We know all the numbers forward and backwards, we have our sales pitches...
Competitive advantage – a new way of calculating it
Learn how to calculate the competitive advantage derived from cultural diversity, cultural intelligence and innovation.
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When Innovation dies it is too late to change
Becoming innovative is difficult – staying innovative is harder – and when it fades it is almost always too late to change the culture
Post-merger integration – the top 3 reasons why it usually fails
According to most surveys, including those from BusinessWeek and McKinsey quarterly 2/3 of all mergers and acquisitions fail to meet their objectives due to cultural clashes. In Gugin we have spent thousands of hours and a lot of money researching the reason behind this and develop services that help bring down that ratio.
Cultural Dilemma 1: The Owner’s Daughter
As leaders we are faced with dilemmas all the time. if you have a high level of Cultural intelligence you will reconcile them successfully
Future Cultural Challenges for Airlines and Airports
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....
Book Dr. Finn Majlergaard as Speaker for your next Event or Masterclass
Re-energise your Team with an interactive inspirational speech or a tailored workshop To kick-off an organisational change process To re-energise a culturally diverse team To boost innovation in a culturally diverse team To facilitate feedback on organisational...
Dilemma 3: Are you corrupt?
Are you corrupt? Usually when you ask people if they are corrupt they will answer "No!". But the truth is that we can all end up being corrupt if the pressure on us is big enough. Will will not be proud of it, many will not speak about it and most people will feel a...
Can you do too much for your employees?
We raise the question because we did a large survey for a client last month that gave some surprising results - results that will require some further research - for sure, but we will disclose the conclusions with you in this article. We have anonymised the name and...
Why is Cross-Cultural Leadership so challenging?
Cross Cultural Management is challenging to most managers. This article outlines 3 of the challenges and suggests how you can deal with them
You can’t make a dog happy by wagging its tail
This post is about employee satisfaction. More specifically about why it is so hard to achieve and why we continuously continue to do all the wrong things to increase employee satisfaction. My motivation to write this post comes from many of our clients, who don't...
The potential curse of the next generation in family-owned companies
Many of the companies who have been in business for more than 100 years are family-owned and Hoshi Ryokan, Founded in 718 AD, in Japan, Hoshi Ryokan is the oldest continuously operated family business in the world Most people and the vast majority of the entertainment...
Gugins services – How are they developed
This short article is going to deal with one of the questions we are asked very often; "How are Gugins services developed and how do you know where to focus?" To answer the second part of the question first, the answer is easy - we ask our clients. Since 2001...
Which Rules are you ready to break to be considered a Leader?
I gave my students in “Leadership across Cultures” the exam question: “Which rules and norms will you break in order to be considered a leader?” This article covers some of the findings and delivers a glimpse of what future employers can expect from ambitious american students
Why Business Leaders shouldn’t run Countries
We often hear the argument that a country should be run like a business. We hear that politicians are talentless and that they have no knowledge about the real life. The people who are standing on the side shouting this are usually people who are (or claim to be)...
From FOMO to JOMO :: A paradigm shift in our view on Social Media
Relax; FOMO is fading away FOMO, which is the "Fear Of Missing Out" has for many years been the key enabler for our use of Social Media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. You have probably read stories about people who got depressed over not being a part of an...
Your Comfort Zone is the most dangerous Place to be
I recently facilitated a global leadership workshop for a group of very introverted MBA students - actually the most introverted group I have ever had. It was not a group of executive MBA students so they have both their life and challenges ahead of them. One of the...
Cultural fit or Skills? What is most important when hiring people?
Cultural fit or skills – what is most important when you hire people? You will probably say both, but which one comes first? Do you start by looking for people who culturally fit into your organisation or do you start by looking for specific skills for a specific job?
3 topics all leaders should have on their cultural radar screen in 2024
Leaders are often so tied up with short-term issues that they don’t see the iceberg in front of them. Here are 3 topics that should be on their radar screen.
Are you in a toxic Work Culture? – Blow the whistle
Toxic work culture is bad for both you and your company Do you ever have the feeling that you have to pull all your energy together in order to be able to go to work? Do you have anxiety when entering your workplace? A toxic work culture can have a huge negative...
Leverage cultural diversity and accelerate organisational effectiveness
Want to boost innovation power, employee satisfaction and competitive advantage in your organisation? To leverage cultural diversity is probably one of the most overlooked disciplines in modern management and leadership. 2/3 of all mergers and acquisitions fail due to...
Gugins Blog posts
- Changing Corporate Culture With Cultural Nudging 22. July, 2024 Finn Majlergaard
- Why Fighting Climate Change has to be embedded in Corporate Cultures 21. July, 2024Fighting climate change has to be embedded in the corporate cultures for a number of reasons. Learn why and how you change the corporate culture The post Why Fighting Climate Change has to be embedded in Corporate Cultures first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- When we accept behaviour today we wouldn’t accept before 21. July, 2024 Finn Majlergaard
- Why Brexit might be the best thing that has happened to Europe in 30 years 18. July, 2024 Finn Majlergaard
- Why leaving Facebook is the right thing to do 9. July, 2024 Finn Majlergaard
- 5 reasons you will never become a Leader 8. July, 2024A 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. The post 5 reasons you will […]Finn Majlergaard
- Here is the one thing that resolves most cultural conflicts 5. July, 2024 Finn Majlergaard
- 5 soft skills a leader should possess to create a strong corporate culture 4. July, 2024Soft 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 […]Finn Majlergaard
- Focus on micro-inequities to avoid Cultural Conflicts becoming destructive 4. July, 2024Almost 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 The post Focus on micro-inequities to avoid Cultural Conflicts becoming destructive first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- Cultural Diversity is the key to Success for Global Companies 2. July, 2024Taking 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