Teamwork
...hip positions that were excellent preparation for an MBA program. I learned from both my successes and failures. For instance the first three months after I got elected as president of the International Association of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania came out to be a disaster because of a lack of duty delegation, a lack of communication, and a lack of collaboration. Basically there was no joint effort when it came to accomplishing projects. At that period the events organized by the association came out to be failures because they always looked very disorganized. I learned from that experience that leadership and teamwork are the keys to the success of a group project. Had I trusted the other board members and shared the workload, we would have succeeded in all of our duties. I took that as a lesson to improve my leadership and teamwork skills. After that I was the leader of many other project academic-related, organization-related, and professional-related that had good outcomes. So I think I possess skills that I can use in an MBA group project setting to guide my classmates and contribute to the success of that project. Also, I have worked as an accountant for a while now. I think there is something special about my job. It is the fact that I am an accountant in a healthcare service. I currently work for Hospitals Corporation of America (HCA). I am an accountant at the Northern Virginia Community Hospital that is one of their branches in Virginia. Working as an accountant in a hospital is very different from working as an accountant in a traditional business. The duties are more complicated and more detail-oriented just because hospitals get audited more...