You know it’s late November not because of the lights twinkling on trees, the generally bad (digital) invites to corporate holiday events or the toxic Christmas scents in shops and hotel lobbies. Rather, it is because this is the season for sneaky emails that pop up on your screen from a panicked assistant who’s been charged with pulling together a year-end board report or 2012 strategy document. They generally read something like this:
知道歲末年關將臨，不是緣于道路兩旁的火樹銀花，也不是因為受邀參加公司慶典常見的那種不懷好意的短信，更不是因為參加在商店與酒店內舉行、用心險惡的圣誕節香水促銷活動，而是在這個時節，電腦上突然收到的某些六神無主的公司助理所發的鬼鬼祟祟的電郵，對方負責草擬公司的年終總結或來年的戰略規劃，電郵的內容大致如下：
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