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How to get teams to gel quickly — harsh lessons from holidays with loose connections that holds the answerIf only there was more love in teams and that everyone was more nice“There are 8 of …
How to get teams to …
How to get teams to gel quickly — harsh lessons from holidays with loose connections that holds the answerIf only there was more love in teams and that everyone was more nice“There are 8 of us all nominally at the same level and we’re all senior but it is a total car crash. Nobody trusts each other and it’s led to so much sucking up to the boss, backstabbing, re-work and absolutely no decisions being made.”This is what a friend told me when I caught up with her for a long overdue lunch recently about her newish role in a prolific UK company.“As an expert in people dynamics,…
Faris Aranki
April 19, 2024
This is all of us chasing the moon[This is a version of an article originally written for The Portfolio Collective about portfolio careers]It’s arguably harder than ever to stand out in the modern …
This is all of us ch…
This is all of us chasing the moon[This is a version of an article originally written for The Portfolio Collective about portfolio careers]It’s arguably harder than ever to stand out in the modern world; not only does the average person consume about 74GB of information per day (the equivalent of 16 movies) but a lot of it is very similar and they forget most of it by the next day.This proves particularly challenging when it comes to the business world, where effectively many people are trying to ‘sell’ to the same people, bombarding them with info about their products and services; th…
Faris Aranki
March 22, 2024
What would the movie credits of your life look like?“But do you actually know all those people”, a friend asked me as we were discussing our differing approaches to how we use LinkedIn.She’d re…
What would the movie…
What would the movie credits of your life look like?“But do you actually know all those people”, a friend asked me as we were discussing our differing approaches to how we use LinkedIn.She’d read my recent blog all about how I treated LinkedIn as a journal and was grilling me about it — I’ve previously explained in detail my evolving approach to using LinkedIn.“If it’s a journal, why would you be willing to let others read it and, why do you care how many people read it” — she was commenting on the number of followers I had.I know it doesn’t necessarily make sense…
Faris Aranki
March 11, 2024
Me looking wistful just after I receive a response about an outstanding proposalI love running a start-up; it ticks so many boxes for me such as: the massive improvements to my quality of life, the le…
Me looking wistful j…
Me looking wistful just after I receive a response about an outstanding proposalI love running a start-up; it ticks so many boxes for me such as: the massive improvements to my quality of life, the levels of variety it affords me, the uplift in my independence, the healthy challenge to build something from nothing, the impact my company has on others and more.However, it has lots of downsides: loneliness in the early days, the amount I am stretched day-to-day, the constant challenge of cashflow and never being certain where the money will come from, the decision overload that goes with having…
Faris Aranki
March 3, 2024
Data never lies - my 10 years of dating apps“44, single and not going to have kids”There’s nothing like reading your life summarised in one sentence to really hammer home your situation.This w…
Data never lies - my…
Data never lies - my 10 years of dating apps“44, single and not going to have kids”There’s nothing like reading your life summarised in one sentence to really hammer home your situation.This was the killer sentence from a financial report an investment company sent me recently.They had pulled together a summary of my financial needs and were making recommendations on how I should invest my money.Forget the stellar advice contained in the report; this was the sentence that really stuck with me.Sure, to them, these were simply assumptions for their report but to me, whether I l…
Faris Aranki
February 25, 2024
