[Long,Jeran]

My name is Jeran Long and I am 15 years old. In my school we have an entrepreneurship class and in that class we create a simulation company, I got elected president even though I'm one year younger than everybody else. The problem I have is 1. That no one listens to me and 2. That they don't listen to reason. To reach our BEP (break even point) we must produce 262 products in 7 weeks. We can hardly even reach 16 products per week. I voted to change the price so that our actual BEP was less than 262.However no one voted with me, it is impossible for us to possibly finish the way we are going and every one (except me) seems fine with it. Now one of the problems with the BEP is that the original designers of the product grossly underestimated the cost ot produce it. They had initially said that it cost 0.40 dollars to make one and now we find out that it actually costs 2.03 dollars. I'm worried that if I can't handle a small problem like this I might not be able to actually manage a company. Normally if they proposed an idea like this in a real company they would be fired, however since this is a course I can not fire anyone, just remove their pay/demote them, also this is supposed to be a team effort after all it's our company not my company. Any ideas?

[StealYourDreams]

I have no idea how corporate structures work in Canada, but if you were in the United States I would say that you were the highest ranking officer/director of your organization and as such you are the one responsible for doing what needs to be done.

Do you need to vote on all matters? Probably not. You as the elected leader set policy, you not the employees. If the majority doesnt like the way things are going your stint as president will be short lived. In the meantime, if you've been asking and getting resistance it's time to start telling.