Earlier this year The Guardian published a tongue-in-cheek list of top tips to help people back to work after the Christmas break. At number two on the list was the tip to “forget any work you didn’t finish last year, it probably doesn’t need doing anyway”.
Obviously this was not a tip to be taken literally. But, perhaps there is a grain of truth in it. The start of the year is a perfect opportunity for all teams to consider what it is they want to achieve this year, free of the end-of-year baggage of last year. As I often think in December, Christmas is a little known anagram of “arbitrary deadline” (go on, try it).
