June 16th, 2024
Faris Aranki
Effectiveness: It’s a lot to do with change; so does change make you 😊 or 😔? This isn’t a blog about coins This is a reprint of a classic blog I wrote in December 2019 when I first started Shiageto Consulting In my previous blogs I began to explore a bit more about personal, team and business effectiveness. […]
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June 8th, 2024
Faris Aranki
Look at that face *This is a reprint of a classic blog I wrote in November 2019, not long after I’d started my first start-up A/ One bite at a time of course… I love this ridiculous joke (not just because it entertains my nephews) but because underneath it lies the simplest of truths; sometimes if we only […]
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March 11th, 2024
Ipek Williamson
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” Charles Buxton We all share the same 24 hours in a day, yet some people seem to effortlessly accomplish their goals while others struggle to keep up. The secret lies in effective time management—a skill that can transform your life […]
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February 28th, 2024
Paula D. Tozer
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference From the poem The Road Less Traveled by Robert Frost Isn’t it cool? Every day that you wake up on […]
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February 4th, 2024
Faris Aranki
“Feed the beast and the beast will feed you” — 3 LinkedIn examples from my week that emphasise why doing this effectively increases my surface area of luck John Amaechi is such a lovely man but how did I end up meeting him? Read on… Last year I took part in a interview with a class of British school […]
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January 21st, 2024
Faris Aranki
This is what you get when you ask BingChat to create an image of half life in relation to friendships Somehow I ended up spending over 12 hours of my Saturday writing emails. That’s longer than I spend working on most work days; so why did I do it? What were the emails about? They were emails […]
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January 8th, 2024
Faris Aranki
GenAI helped me with an image of a panda dwelling over failure whilst everyone around him is cheerful It’s the morning of the first working Monday of 2024 and I have chosen to spend it writing my first blog of the year, but what should the topic be? This time of year there’s a lot written about […]
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December 31st, 2023
Faris Aranki
Shiageto is like this puppy; exhausted after the year we’ve had but excited for our growth next year 😊 It’s the final day of 2023 and it’s at this time of year that people reflect on how their year has panned out. For me, the founder of an innovative consulting firm that specialises on strategic effectiveness, it’ […]
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December 29th, 2023
Paula D. Tozer
Today I asked myself…What is the formula for unhappiness? Always seeking, never finding. Always learning, never knowing. To find it is to know it. To know it is to live it. Simple. If that’s so, then why do we struggle to be happy? Your life doesn’t contradict your words or circumstances. What you live is […]
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December 11th, 2023
Faris Aranki
#PositivePalestinian — What it’s like to be a “high-profile” Palestinian small business owner right now This is not really how you should wear a keffiyeh I don’t consider myself to be a high-profile Palestinian (I mean I am no Bella Hadid despite what my mum tells me about my good looks) but it has become abundantly clear that for […]
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