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
The Object Oriented Organisation – the new way
The object oriented organisation is the new way of organising people. It is invented by Dr Finn Majlergaard, CEO of Gugin
How is Corporate Culture and Customer Loyalty Connected?
Customer loyalty is together with employee satisfaction the two key factors for organisational success. But how do you really get loyal customers?
How creative are you – and how do you turn it into innovation?
How creative are you? And how do you turn your creativity into innovation and how do you create the right culture that supports innovation?
Changing Corporate Culture With Cultural Nudging
Introduce cultural changes in your organisation with cultural nudging – a fun and powerful way to change behaviour
Your Comfort Zone is the most dangerous Place to be
Your comfort zone is the most dangerous place to be as a leader because you don’t pay attention to what is happening around you.
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.
Cultural diversity in the workplace
Learn how important it is to benefit strategically from the cultural diversity in the workplace. It also gives you a lot of competitive advantage.
Time management – a cultural dilemma on time management
Time management is important, but we all have different relationship with time depending on our cultural preferences. Here is how to breach the gaps.
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...
Be Global in anything you do everywhere in the world
Be global in anything you do everywhere you do it. Opportunities are local.. competition is global so you need to have a global mindset as well
Post-merger integration – top 3 reasons why it usually fails
Post-merger integration is an often forgotten process but it is crucial when you want organisations to succeed with a merger or a acquisition
What is most important when hiring – Cultural fit or Skills?
What is most important when hiring people – Cultural fit or skills? Learn why cultural fit is the more important than skills when recruiting people
Cultural Intelligence, what is it and how do you develop it?
Cultural intelligence is together with emotional intelligence one of the most powerful leadership tools you can get.
Leadership Training reinvented for future leaders
Gugin has reinvented leadership training will a focus on all the new skills future leaders need to have. AI, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence.
Future Cultural Challenges for Airlines and Airports – Full document
What are the future cultural challenges for airlines and airports . That you can read about in this research report from Gugin research Institute
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
3 topics you should have on your cultural radar screen
Here are the main topics you should have on your cultural radar screen as a leader. Gugin is regularly updating what we believe are the most important topics.
9 reasons why you must have a strong company culture
Here are 9 reasons why you should have a strong company culture. A culture also needs constant maintenance and development. Are you prepared?
An employee betrays you. What do you do?
An employee betrays you It is not a conflict so how will you deal with it. It is one of many questions Gugin Executive coaching can help you with
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
How much cultural Intelligence do you have?
Look carefully at the image above. What do you pay attention to first, the different colours or the similar shapes? If you see the different colours first it means that you have a preference for looking for differences before you see similarities. If, however, you see...
Artificial Intelligence -how not to destroy the company culture
Everybody is talking about artificial intelligence, but how does it affect your company culture when you want to introduce it to your organisation?
Cross-Cultural Team Development in the Southern French Alps
Team development in the southern French Alps is a great way to develop your cultural competence is in your team together with the Gugin experts
Gugins Blog posts
- Fear as a Management tool? – Take the Survey 2. May, 2025How often do you use fear to motivate? In the Gugin, we are about to start researching on how, when and why we as managers use fear as a management tool The post Fear as a Management tool? – Take the Survey first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- Culture Audit – Get the truth about your organisation 29. April, 2025 Finn Majlergaard
- The top 5 corporate culture challenges for managers 25. April, 2025Here are the top 5 culture challenges managers of culturally diverse teams are facing according to Gugin's research. Overcoming them is often a challenge too The post The top 5 corporate culture challenges for managers first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- Everyone in your organisation needs to be culturally intelligent. Here is why! 25. April, 2025A toxic workplace culture can be devastating for an organisation, but fixing it can be challenging as we often get used to the toxic environment The post Everyone in your organisation needs to be culturally intelligent. Here is why! first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- Healthcare industry progress blocked by cultural challenges 20. April, 2025Cultural challenges in the healthcare industry are blocking innovation and service improvements The post Healthcare industry progress blocked by cultural challenges first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- Why Fighting Climate Change has to be embedded in Corporate Cultures 17. April, 2025Fighting 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
- How to successfully screw up a business meeting 16. April, 2025 Finn Majlergaard
- 5 Common Cross-Cultural Leadership Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) 15. April, 2025Learn the top 5 mistakes leaders make when managing multicultural teams — and how to avoid them. Expert advice from Gugin’s cross-cultural leadership specialists. The post 5 Common Cross-Cultural Leadership Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- Are the value statements on your corporate website real? 14. April, 2025Sure! Here’s a more engaging, conversational, and personal version of your article, while keeping the original message and credibility intact: Why Your Company’s Values Aren’t What You Think They Are Let’s be honest—we’ve all been there. Sitting through yet another corporate presentation, watching an endless stream of PowerPoint slides float by. Somewhere between the obligatory […]Finn Majlergaard
- I just say things as they are… 14. April, 2025I just say things as they are - is a phrase we often hear. It reveals that the person saying it has very low cultural and emotional intelligence The post I just say things as they are… first appeared on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard