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ZACHARY"The goal is to take over the hawk wings airlines, improvise and relaunch it with a new brand na.. "" what are the risk rates?" I interrupted our strategy manager.we are at a board meeting discussing about the pro's and con's of the new project, which our company is planning to launch in a couple of months."Currently it is about thirty five percent sir, our team is working on it" he said.I raised my eye brow at this, prompting him to give a detailed explaination. He nervously wiped his forehead with a handkerchief before continuing  "Sir, we have delievered a strong financial and operating results so far. our financial strength enables us to invest through the business cycle and internally fund 80% of our record capital with the expenditures of $4 billion.we are even maintaining a strong balance sheet with the ratio of debt to total capital of 7% and we are still working on minimising the loss we may incure in the process if it didn't work out our way." He paused waiting for me to say something." hmm.. Go on" I motioned him to resume with his ppt presentation."As I said, according to the financial statement in the business plan, the current assets are $8.067 billion . The aim is to accelerate the airline growth, once the announcement is made public...". The meeting went on for another forty five minutes.".... The detailed report was sent over to you this morning sir, we need you to look over it and give the approval so that we can go ahead with the plan." carter informed."I'll look into it" I said " anything else I should know about?"receiving no reply from any of the members, I stood up " well, that would be all for today then" dismissing them." stella, clear my schedule for the next week, I won't be available" I Informed my PA, once we were out of the board room. "And mail me those reports ASAP. ""yes sir"wasting no time, I headed out towards the car. Once Inside I told Jason, my driver cum bodyguard to drive me home and called Alec on the way, one of my best friendHe picked my call on the third ring "yo bro, all set for tomorrow?""hmm.. ya kind of".Me and my three friends are going to new zealand tomorrow on a vacation. It's like a tradition among us since our college days to go on a trip, every year on the fourth week of april. No matter how busy we are or where we are, we cancel all our work and adjust our schedule to be together for this one week of the year. This time we are spending a week at Ryan's summer house in new zealand."That's good to know." I heard him say"what about the other two Morons?""Ryan, will be meeting us directly at the airport and Josh will come over to my place in the morning and we'll be leaving to the airport together". Giving a slight pause , "But what about you?, Are you coming over to my place or are you coming separately?"I took a moment to think over and then said "umm.. No, I won't be joining you in the morning, I'll meet you guys directly at the airport.""Okay, but don't be late." I rolled my eyes at this"AH, that's something I should be telling you boys, and you know I'm never late and never tolerate latecomers even if they are my best buddies, so make sure to get your asses there on time" He chuckled and said sarcastically " Aye! aye! MR. perfectionist""Good, see ya tomorrow then" I said and was about to terminate the call when I heard him say "make sure you finish all your work before leaving, cause you won't be allowed to do any office work later on. Remember ' All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'. "" I know, bye"I sighed once I was done talking to Alec, I'm gonna have a long week ahead where I won't have to worry about any thing, No files, no conferences, no media... only enjoyment.Not that I don't like my work or anything like that, but I believe in balancing both my career and personal life, come on man. I earn to be happy and need to atleast try to make the most out of my life and certainly don't want to wait until my retirement to do that. I'll be too old enough to try anything. The best thing is that my friends too have the same mentality as mine.