What your business really needs from Q4

Hi Reader, This month I wrote a piece for the British Chamber of Commerce Dubai's member newsletter, and I wanted to share the thinking with you too, because it applies wherever your business happens to be based. It's about Q4, and the way most of us treat it as a sprint. Hit the targets, wrap up the year, then squeeze next year's planning in around the edges. By December the plan for the new year is built on what energy you have left, and January opens with the same bottlenecks you had in...