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Ethical Learning: The Invisible Risk Organisations Can No Longer Ignore
Ethical Learning: The Invisible Risk Organisations Can No longer Ignore One of the biggest risks in organisations today is ethical uncertainty. Ethics is one of the most mentioned, and least practiced, topics in organisational life. Many organisations assume that policies, codes of conduct and compliance training are sufficient. Yet when employees find themselves [...]
Workshop ‘Writing for AI Discoverability’
๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ โ๐ช๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐โ On February 11, Caroline Allertz and Janet Poot delivered a workshop on โWriting for AI discoverabilityโ for LOYENS & LOEFF, working with their marketing and communications professionals. We enjoyed the interaction, excellent questions and reflections from the international participants. Key elements of our workshop included how expertise is [...]
Call to attention for Supervisory Boards / NEDs
๐๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐๐ผ ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐/ ๐ก๐๐๐. As an experienced supervisory board member, I believe that we need to be clear-headed, courageous and vigilant as never before. We see that even our most important ally, the USA, is overturning long-term agreements, weakening instead of upholding international law and applying power over principle. This [...]
Leading Global Teams in egalitarian and hierarchical structures
Leading Global Teams in egalitarian and hierarchical structures. Working across cultures involves a variety of complexities that, if managed incorrectly, may disrupt the intended strategy. This can be costly, especially when speed and support are of the essence. Derailments are usually a result of management holding on to their assumptions of what kind [...]
Why does AI-generated content underperform in Search?
๐ช๐๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐๐ฆ ๐๐-๐๐๐ก๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ก๐ง๐๐ก๐ง ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ก ๐จ๐ก๐๐๐ฅ๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ก ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐? I am sure that you too are becoming better at identifying AI-generated content, but why does it often underperform in search? Here are some key reasons why AI articles tend to rank lower than human articles: Lack of originality: AI tends to reproduce existing ideas [...]
How do we hold onto our intelligence?
๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ฒ ๐ต๐ผ๐น๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ผ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ? Simon Kuper's 2025 article in The Financial Times 'The Evolution of Stupid' is thought provoking. Here's a snapshot of what Simon Kuper states: "AI is the latest in a sequence of inventions that have made humanity dumber. We outsourced our math skills to calculators, our memory [...]















