Most people believe they can spot deepfakes. The numbers, however, tell a different story. And anyone who relies on their own eyes is defending a position that was lost long ago. When Propaganda Still Had a Sender On 9 November 1989, I was sitting in a flight school,...
A genuine speak-up culture does not reveal itself in a mission statement. Instead, it shows in a single moment: when someone says “stop” to their superior. Few fields demonstrate how much can depend on that moment as clearly as aviation. After all, a lack...
CEO fraud rarely starts with a technical security gap. In most cases, it starts with a perfectly ordinary message that sounds exactly like the boss. I experienced this myself in spring 2024, and it happened in my own office. An Email in My Name That I Never Wrote It...
Those who communicate precisely need subordinate clauses, whereas those who simplify fit on a bus. That is precisely why the loudest voices win – not because they are right, but because they communicate more clearly. What leaders can learn from that, and what they...
Leading against the wind is no longer an exceptional state for many organisations – it has become a permanent condition. Cost-cutting programmes, reorganisations, AI offensives, new strategic visions, followed by another cost-cutting programme. None of these is a...
AI and leadership – this is no longer an abstract debate about the future. Instead, it plays out every day, in boardrooms, in editorial offices and at desks where decisions are prepared. And it is precisely there that a loss reveals itself – one that does not feel...