Important Question - Leadership

[BARKer]

Hi guys
My nick is BARKer, and it's my first thread here.
In Sep I will be a senior at high Ramot-Hefer, in Kibutz Maabarot (-aint your fault, it's in the state of Israel). My team, The Crackbots num' 1950, managed to compete at the FIRST FRC regional competition of 2006 (which was the sec' year of region Israel) with a decent robot. As aforesaid, I am unfamiliar with the community here, at Cheif Delphi forums, and nevertheless, I would like to ask for your help this time.

Last year, besides my part in modeling and engineering, I was in the leadership of my team. and things didn't go very well, and the factual student who ruled everyone\thing made others leave irate. So pretty much he did all by himself, and it's worthy of note that he was really good at construction. However, he worked alone and it caused a big anti towards him and towards the project - and people slowly but surely stopped coming to work. He was a senior then, and it means that next year there is supposed to be a new chief\leader from the students. Bottom line, I would to ask you to offer me ways to choose an appropriate one, so the situation won't repeat itself? (elections\by the teacher or principle...)

thx