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My intended major is business administration or business economics. Interestingly, my attraction to the major developed not by working in the business world but through my volunteer work with the Boy Scouts. I obtained my Eagle Scout designation in 2005 and subsequently managed a Boy Scout troop, which required me to manage the troop's financial and other resources as well as teaching the scouts how to operate their troop somewhat like a business. This was both challenging and fun, and in the process I realized how much I enjoyed operating a business and meeting the tests involved. Teaching business concepts to the scouts made them clearer to me as well, and I found that I actually knew more about business administration than I thought.

Working with the scouts gave me more than just business experience, however. I also learned about two vital concepts that have been extremely influential in my business approach-ethics and emotional intelligence. The Boy Scouts is an organization founded on strong ethics, which I believe is essential for good business. By helping the scouts face situations where it would be easier to overlook ethics and take the easy way out, I recognized how important ethics is to me. Major business scandals had just aired in the news a few years before, and I was familiar with the disastrous effects of unethical business dealings, both on the company and on its customers, so I decided that living and working ethically was important for me and for the scouts.

I also learned about the influence of emotional intelligence on working together in teams. Most of the difficulties that the scouts encountered in collaborating with one another had to do with their just-developing emotional intelligence skills. As I helped them strengthen these skills, my own grew stronger in the process, and I was able to discern many situations on my regular job where a lack of emotional intelligence wa

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