Executive Development Associates Assume you are Mary Ann O'Connell, general manager at Executive Development Associates. Your firm provides outplacement, training and development, career planning, and head-hunting services for a large number of Fortune 500 companies. You have been at the corporate board meeting for the last three days in the Rocky Mountains, and you relied on your secretary to screen out all but the most important or urgent messages. You slipped into the office on the way home from the airport Monday evening, just to check your electronic messages and your mail. Aside from a host of phone calls to return, here is the collection of messages retrieved from your email file and mail box. Assignment 1. For each message, outline specifically the plan you will implement to empower others effectively to solve these problems. Determine who should be involved, what level of initiative should be taken, what actions you can take to ensure empowerment, how accountability should be maintained, and so on. 2. Write out the actions you'd take in response to each item. A worksheet has been provided on the next page to remind you of what you should consider as you rec- ord your responses