Intercultural Leadership – Challenges and Opportunities
Cross Cultural Management is challenging to most managers. This article outlines 3 of the challenges and suggests how you can deal with them
Your Comfort Zone is the most dangerous Place to be
Home Consulting Consulting Services For the healthcare industry For the aviation industry Training & Courses Blog Posts Downloads Contact Gugin About Gugin I recently facilitated a global leadership workshop for a group of very introvert MBA students –...
Cultural Audit – Get the truth about your organisation
Cultural Audit – Get 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...
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?
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
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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Gugins Blog posts
- Integration of corporate cultures – how is it facilitated successfully? 14. June, 2021Corporate 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 time to integrate the organisations properly. And when you don’t succeed with the integration […]Finn Majlergaard
- Get Cross-Cultural Leadership Development in the Southern French Alps 3. June, 2021Develop 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 has facilitated leadership training in the Borneo rainforest. We have learned […]Finn Majlergaard
- Here is why innovation projects often fail 26. May, 2021In most surveys covering strategic priorities, innovation usually comes in among the top three priorities. Yet, most innovation projects fail to succeed. In this article, I will explain why that is and what we can do to make innovation more successful. Why is innovation crucial for an organisation’s long-term survival? There is an American saying […]Finn Majlergaard
- How a bank discovered that banking wasn’t its core competence 27. April, 2021This article is about what can happen when you look at your company’s culture and core competencies with an open mind. It is also about having the courage as a leader to make drastic decisions in order to leverage your company’s culture in the very best way. A European bank asked Gugin to help them […]Finn Majlergaard
- How working from home may damage your company culture 2. December, 2020This 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 have been sent home to work from home because of […]Finn Majlergaard
- Fear as a Management tool? – Take the Survey 4. August, 2020How often do you use fear to motivate? In the Gugin Research Team, we are about to start researching on how, when and why we as managers use fear as a management tool. Our preliminary research shows that some use it often, others never but almost everyone we have talked to believe that they use […]Finn Majlergaard
- How much cultural Intelligence do you have? 3. August, 2020Look 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 the similar shapes before noticing they have different colours, […]Finn Majlergaard
- When Innovation dies it is too late to change 31. July, 2020Becoming 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 appeared first on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- 5 Best things you can do for your multicultural team 29. July, 2020Making everyone happy and motivated is difficult. If the group is very diverse it might seem almost impossible - but it is not - read on The post 5 Best things you can do for your multicultural team appeared first on Gugin.Finn Majlergaard
- Why I always bring a hard case onboard a plane as hand baggage 25. July, 2020Home Consulting Consulting Services For the healthcare industry For the aviation industry Training & Courses Blog Posts Downloads Contact Gugin About Gugin This is an article about how airlines are pleasing all the wrong passengers I fly a lot. In Gugin we have a number of airlines and airports as clients, where we help them […]Finn Majlergaard