The period in between Christmas and New Year has long been recognised as an opportunity to reflect on the past while anticipating the future. No wonder then that the name of the first month of any year is based on the Roman God Janus, the animistic spirit of doorways, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. It’s no coincidence either that “the root word of ‘leadership’ is ‘leith’ which means to cross the threshold, to let go of old ways, mind-sets and logic in order to embrace the new” (1). That being so, it could be argued that this period in the calendar year is the…