OK that is it. Xmas is officially over. Well here in Singapore anyway. On New Year's Eve we popped into town for a quick bit of shopping (back to school stuff) and went through Takashimaya, a rather large building with more shops squeezed into it than the average British town has scattered along the high street. They had a very (and that means about seven storey high) xmas tree just before the event. Nice. But by New Year's eve, it was gone! Whatever happened to the 12 days of xmas? Lunar New Year, thats what. For the first time in a number of years, it turns up at the end of January, so the commercial interests all over town are ripping down the cheery red xmas banners and are busy replacing them with . . cheery red new year banners! (wouldn't you think they could reuse?)
And why should you all care? Well if you are doing business here in Asia, you have a few nano-seconds when you get back to work tomorrow to get cracking with your customers before the all slump into the "Ah, sorry, busy getting ready for Chinese New Year" and don't want to talk to you.
So get your running shoes on. If there was ever a year when it is time to come off the starting blocks at a sprint, this is it!
I know we are. That's why I'm up at just after midnight putting the finishing touches to my running shoes. Well actually not, but I have just finished tweaking our new website so you can sign up for our free report on Getting Return on Investment from Training. Go on. Drop in and sign up, you know it will make sense. And later this week there wil be even more useful info and stuff for your sales team to learn from, but you will have to come back next week to find out about that!
