The Lab Partner Syndrome?!

We have what we call the lab partner syndrome. If you've had a chemistry class where you do group projects and there's always, and they're almost always the athletes, but you have the popular kid who pairs up with a bunch of the nerdier kids, the science geeks, and everyone does all the work and they sit there and they just kind of goof around and delegate and they're like, oh yeah, this is fun. We're doing well on the project. And they don't actually ever do anything. If you end up with them on your team, you have to find a way to try to avoid that. When it happens, go back to rule number 1, finish the project, have the conversation, don't do more deals with them. Don't continue to make the same mistake. However, you can avoid this if you have very clear rules on you will do this task, this task, and this task, and you actually have the communication to follow up.