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Question

As a new employee, you are to help your boss plan a successful and effective meeting that will engage attendees and produce positive results by motivating them and keeping them interested. Background: The company you work for is a relatively new start-up, run by young people who created the company's operating concept and pride themselves in being different, even quirky, to make their work seem more like fun than drudgery. There is no pretense here. Employees are very laid back, yet energetic and full of ideas. Conference rooms are not numbered, but have been given names that relate to galaxies. Old-style management would find their approach to be silly, unsophisticated and would think this odd company is unlikely to be a long-term player in the business world. But that doesn't deter the company, its management, and its investors from following its unique culture. It is a goal of management to keep all employees informed of the company's plans and to encourage employees to be creative, pushing them to come up with new ideas to improve the company all the time. That is one objective of this meeting.

Write a memo to Carlos. In it, tell him how you have organized every detail of the meeting (but don't ramble or repeat yourself) from the time of day, food or snacks that will be available, where the meeting will be held, and any team-building activities you think useful. Show the steps of planning, the steps of execution of the plan, and describe briefly how you think the meeting should proceed, down to the adjournment. Create a meeting time-line agenda in columnar format and a simple columnar budget as part of the plan.