their milestones, they planned a weekly team catch-up in the boardroom where everyone could raise their concerns and issues and they could plan for the following week. The senior strategy consultants were to do market research and analyse the data, providing this important information to Anjana, Joe and Mike, who were effectively in charge of the three deliverables. Even though Yuchau and Wen report directly to Jeff, they were considered to be 'less important as they helped the other three perform their jobs. Without Yuchau and Wen, Anjana, Joe and Mike would not have the critical information needed to make key strategic decisions. Usually a junior consultant would be assigned a senior counterpart. The junior would do the mode rudimentary tasks such as data collection and coordination, essentially helping the senior consultants to do their jobs. But due to the nature of the project, Jeff wanted Amanda and Franz to work freely with both of the senior consultants and report directly to himself. In the first week of working together the team seemed to be functioning well. Jeff could see emails going back and forth between the different employees and it seemed that everyone was working effectively towards their deadline. At their team catch-up at the end of the first week, people were smiling and had no complaints. Busy yes, but smiling