# Simulen Insights

> Articles on strategy, transformation, and how modern organisations build
> lasting capability — from the Simulen team. 15 published
> articles, newest first.

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Most recent article: 2026-06-22
Categories: Strategy (3), Leadership (5), Data (3), People (2), Delivery (2)

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## Articles

- [S is for Sovereignty](https://simulen.com/insights/s-is-for-sovereignty/) (Akis Tsekouras · Strategy · 2026-06-22): Surviving the AI singularity is no longer a matter of political pride for Europe; reclaiming sovereignty over models, data, and silicon is a matter of survival.
- [You either win or you lose (learning optional)](https://simulen.com/insights/you-either-win-or-you-lose-learning-optional/) (Akis Tsekouras · Leadership · 2026-06-09): More often than not, you plainly lose and learn precisely nothing.
- [From punch cards to tell-n-code](https://simulen.com/insights/from-punch-cards-to-tell-n-code/) (Akis Tsekouras · Data · 2026-05-29): From punch cards to BASIC to a small army of coding agents: every step made the human-machine interface a little kinder. The latest jump is astonishing — but it is evolution, not revolution, and it still needs an engineer behind it.
- [More is different: my useless PhD just became relevant](https://simulen.com/insights/my-useless-phd-just-became-relevant/) (Akis Tsekouras · Data · 2026-05-22): Twenty years after a doctorate in complex-systems modelling stopped being good dinner-party conversation, the word at its heart — emergence — has become the word of the decade in AI.
- [Some of your people must hate you](https://simulen.com/insights/some-of-your-people-must-hate-you/) (Akis Tsekouras · Leadership · 2026-05-15): If everyone finds you great, you are not actually managing.
- [The mortal sin](https://simulen.com/insights/the-mortal-sin/) (Akis Tsekouras · Leadership · 2026-05-06): Dotted reporting lines should not exist. Ever.
- [The pay transparency directive nobody seems to be reading](https://simulen.com/insights/the-pay-transparency-directive-nobody-seems-to-be-reading/) (Akis Tsekouras · People · 2026-05-06): The EU Pay Transparency Directive becomes binding on 7 June 2026, and most employers are nowhere near ready.
- [Traditional consulting will die by PowerPoint](https://simulen.com/insights/traditional-consulting-will-die-by-powerpoint/) (Akis Tsekouras · Strategy · 2026-05-05): AI will not kill consulting; PowerPoint is already taking care of that.
- [The surprising road to better decisions: unconditional transparency](https://simulen.com/insights/the-surprising-road-to-better-decisions-unconditional-transparency/) (Akis Tsekouras · Leadership · 2020-06-27): Why leaders should share by default, withhold only when necessary, and use transparency to improve decisions.
- [How to fix a Ferrari engine on the run](https://simulen.com/insights/how-to-fix-a-ferrari-engine-on-the-run/) (Akis Tsekouras · Delivery · 2017-06-06): A practical view of distressed project recovery when the project cannot simply stop.
- [The People manifesto](https://simulen.com/insights/the-people-manifesto/) (Akis Tsekouras · People · 2016-11-13): A manifesto for graceful workplaces that put people before structures and processes.
- [The Planning Fallacy](https://simulen.com/insights/the-planning-fallacy/) (Akis Tsekouras · Delivery · 2015-08-31): Why deterministic planning fails in uncertain systems, and how practitioners can plan with humility.
- [Big data and the bottom-up malevolence](https://simulen.com/insights/big-data-and-the-bottom-up-malevolence/) (Akis Tsekouras · Data · 2014-10-10): Big data creates value only when it starts with the business problem, not the dataset.
- [Playful leadership: The fun way to effectiveness](https://simulen.com/insights/playful-leadership-the-fun-way-to-effectiveness/) (Akis Tsekouras · Leadership · 2014-08-04): What parenting can teach leaders about playfulness, trust, and healthier teams.
- [The Lost Art of Business Symbiosis](https://simulen.com/insights/the-lost-art-of-business-symbiosis/) (Akis Tsekouras · Strategy · 2014-07-26): How interconnected business ecosystems make collaborative value creation more powerful than local optimisation.