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00:04

Leadership in Your Community…..a la Shmoop.

00:07

Looking back through our past…don’t worry, this isn’t going to turn into a history lesson… [Historical figures of leaders]

00:11

…it’s clear that every strong community has had great leaders.

00:14

It’s also pretty clear that, without leaders telling followers what to do, nothing would ever get done. [Soldiers in vietnam]

00:20

Or….the same things might get done over and over by… different people.

00:24

For instance, suppose one person decided he wanted to be responsible for hauling all of

00:29

the garbage out of town. [Man helping remove garbage]

00:30

Maybe he grew up playing with dump trucks, or…especially relates to Mr. Clean….

00:34

But then another person felt the same way and thought he should be the garbage shlepper. [Another man appears beside a waste disposal van]

00:38

And yet another person felt like she should be the one to clean out the garbage because

00:42

she, um… had a license to drive a big truck. [Girl holding a truck license]

00:44

Please, please, folks…let’s not fight over who gets to take out the papers and trash…

00:48

So yeah…as a result of this bickering… maybe none of it would get taken care of. [People bickering about who takes the trash]

00:52

Those piles of garbage would end up moving from place to place to place but never leaving

00:55

town or going anywhere.

00:57

The townspeople would get really fed up …not to mention the fact that the rodent population [Rodents appear from garbage bags]

01:00

would probably triple…

01:02

…and the citizens would demand that somebody be responsible for saying who picks up the

01:06

garbage, when they pick it up and where they should put it. [People protesting for a leader]

01:09

There must be a… leader of the garbage…

01:11

Or, if you’re not in love with the garbage example, let’s try something more realistic.

01:14

Say your town is overrun by angry, hungry zombies.

01:17

Somebody’s gotta be the sheriff and decide how to get rid of those guys. [Man in a room and angry zombie appears]

01:20

Somebody has to help the survivors find food and shelter…

01:22

…and teach them how to survive the zombie apocalypse horde without getting their guts snacked [People in a small room and zombie appears from the window]

01:27

on like a sack of Dorito’s.

01:29

If nobody steps up to be a leader…

01:31

Well, you get the idea. Zombies may be slow but they’re not stupid. [Zombies in a horde walking down a street]

01:34

Well, they may be stupid, but…they’re organized.

01:36

And uh… hungry.

01:37

Anyway…YOU need to be that leader.

01:38

Find out about a problem in your community. It could be a big one, could be a small one,

01:42

like…say there’s a problem with people walking their dogs in the neighborhood without [Woman ignoring dog poop in the park]

01:45

cleaning up after them.

01:46

You could lead the charge in terms of putting up signs and poop bag disposal stations to

01:51

make it easier for people to keep the sidewalks clean and poop free.

01:54

Or maybe the crosswalk in front of your school is un-manned and unsafe and students have [Students running across the road]

01:58

to run for their lives hoping not to get hit by traffic. You might petition the school

02:01

board to hire someone to walk students across the street safely.

02:05

Or maybe there’s a problem with people in your community going hungry or needing coats

02:08

or shoes. You could start a food bank, or help out an existing one. Or organize a donation [Homeless people holding up signs for food]

02:13

center for coats and shoes, and then help distribute them.

02:16

Somebody’s gotta step up and be in charge and…it might as well be you.

02:19

You’ll make your parents, teachers and friends proud. Colleges won’t hate it, either. [Man with the dean of admissions and a window boarded up]

02:23

Even zombies know that without leadership, they could just end up wandering the Earth endlessly…

02:27

…hankering for some fresh guts or eyeball viscera and… you wouldn’t want that. [Zombie appears from window in Dean of Admissions room]

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