is a problem facing Qatari businesses. This largely because of the stupid sponsorship employment laws. There are many unhappy, unmotivated employees who cannot change jobs without having to leave the country. If they are unhappy and unmotivated they will not perform well.

Also, management is generally weak. Managers do not sufficiently empower their employees to make decisions and take risks. This causes apathy and delay rather than innovation and imagination. Decsions are not made and it becomes easier to do nothing rather than make a decision that could be wrong and career limiting.

Finally, a lack of transparency, trust and honesty hinders business here. There seems to be too little of this between employees and employers.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. Tagore, Bengali Poet