If some one had asked me back in April to organize a party for 100-120 people, this is what I would do:
1. Take a pen and a piece of paper
2. Think of what needs to be done
3. Draw a blank
4. Give up and go home
I wouldn't know the head from tail of what goes into making a successful party. What needs to be cooked, what needs to be purchased, how to go about decorating- what it takes to create an ambiance where people can laugh, play, enjoy and have a great time. And that is why it is impossible for me to describe in words what Marta and Hugo pulled off last week. I am still dazed from the grandeur they infused into the most amazing event that we have seen at IMD so far this year. And this coming in the heels of a bar already set too high by the St Patrick's party that Marta organized last month.
It takes creativity, hard work, patience and most important of all, a passion for perfection and a passion to bring smiles to others to create something as amazing as this. And Marta and Hugo did it without a frown! Not to mention the entire team of partners who have been at work for over a month for this event, who took the time and the enormous efforts to do the painstaking task of buying, building, decorating, cooking, cleaning... and finally, assembling the extravaganza that was our Brazil-Portugal party at IMD.
At the end of the party, I was telling Hugo and Marta how amazed I was. Hugo responded, "Actually, you did not see everything. We could not do a lot of things we planned because there is simply no time!". I was afraid to ask what those things were. I was already floored in awe and there is only so much I can handle in one day.
I will say this- MBAs, you are lucky to be in IMD in 2012.
1. Take a pen and a piece of paper
2. Think of what needs to be done
3. Draw a blank
4. Give up and go home
I wouldn't know the head from tail of what goes into making a successful party. What needs to be cooked, what needs to be purchased, how to go about decorating- what it takes to create an ambiance where people can laugh, play, enjoy and have a great time. And that is why it is impossible for me to describe in words what Marta and Hugo pulled off last week. I am still dazed from the grandeur they infused into the most amazing event that we have seen at IMD so far this year. And this coming in the heels of a bar already set too high by the St Patrick's party that Marta organized last month.
It takes creativity, hard work, patience and most important of all, a passion for perfection and a passion to bring smiles to others to create something as amazing as this. And Marta and Hugo did it without a frown! Not to mention the entire team of partners who have been at work for over a month for this event, who took the time and the enormous efforts to do the painstaking task of buying, building, decorating, cooking, cleaning... and finally, assembling the extravaganza that was our Brazil-Portugal party at IMD.
At the end of the party, I was telling Hugo and Marta how amazed I was. Hugo responded, "Actually, you did not see everything. We could not do a lot of things we planned because there is simply no time!". I was afraid to ask what those things were. I was already floored in awe and there is only so much I can handle in one day.
I will say this- MBAs, you are lucky to be in IMD in 2012.
