Murdering Monstrous March

Cricket’s slog covers, that last fight in an action flick, the hero’s death in a melodrama, the last crescendo in an opera, the last twist in a O. Henry, the final explanation from Holmes/ Poirot: just for poignancy and goosebumps, there’s nothing to beat the ending. In business, it’s your month in March.

• For days now on end, colleagues and externals will ask, “How was March?”.
• Investors and lenders will ask, “What’s your exit run-rate?”.
• Wife/ kids/ parents will ask, “Now can you behave normally, given March is done?”
• People who care will ask, “Why don’t you take a break now, given the madness is done?”
• The best of us would minutely observe HR’s and bosses’ action to know how it ended and what’s in store next.

And all these questions are accentuated if you are in a start-up. March, after all, was named after Mars, the Roman god of war.

Ending February, you seem away from annual targets. But cometh March, miraculous things happen and suddenly you seem to have surpassed them. And some will say it’s almost prophetic that 1^st-4^th April happens to be a holiday for many. All have kind of earned it.

Killing it in March is a “given”, the question is how brutally you murdered it. Here’s how we fared, a recollection for the ages. * Sanitized for public use.

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