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Leadership and Cherry Popcorn

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When I was in high school, I took an economics class. In the class, we had an assignment where we were supposed to break up into several teams and start a popcorn "business" in the class. We were supposed to make a flavor of popcorn, "buy" a location, create banners for our business, and price our product; another classroom would be given fake money to spend on our popcorn, and whatever profit we made determined our grade for the project. I got placed with who I thought were the worst teammates ever. In fact, there was one teammate whom I had worked with previously, and she landed us an F because she failed to even touch her half of the project (and without her half mine was worthless). Needless to say, I was flustered that I had gotten stuck with such a crew. So much so, that I refused to see a repeat of group projects past, and decided that I was going to put my leadership skills to use in ways I never had before. I took over the project completely, using my teamm...