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605, 2026

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 [...]

1202, 2026

Workshop ‘Writing for AI Discoverability’

๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฝ โ€˜๐—ช๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—”๐—œ ๐——๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜†โ€™ On February 11, Caroline Allertz and Janet Poot delivered a workshop on โ€˜Writing 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 [...]

2801, 2026

Call to attention for Supervisory Boards / NEDs

๐—–๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—”๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐˜€/ ๐—ก๐—˜๐——๐˜€. 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 [...]

3010, 2025

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 [...]

2710, 2025

Why does AI-generated content underperform in Search?

๐—ช๐—›๐—ฌ ๐——๐—ข๐—˜๐—ฆ ๐—”๐—œ-๐—š๐—˜๐—ก๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ง๐—˜๐—— ๐—–๐—ข๐—ก๐—ง๐—˜๐—ก๐—ง ๐—ข๐—™๐—ง๐—˜๐—ก ๐—จ๐—ก๐——๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฃ๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—™๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—  ๐—œ๐—ก ๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—”๐—ฅ๐—–๐—›? 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 [...]

308, 2025

How do we hold onto our intelligence?

๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ? 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 [...]