Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.
The statement contends that understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership. While, some say it is futile to dwell on the past, nevertheless, the mistakes in our past always help us learn what not to do. Therefore,
the statement presented by the author is invalid and can be criticised through its various fallacies.
Primarily, no human ,let alone a leader, has ever perfected any task on their first try. Mastery can only be acheived through practice. In other words, gaining mastery over leadership has to be acheived through experience. For example, Microsoft considered work in hardware, as a trivial endeavor. Hence, never putting much work into it, therefore making it subpar to Apple products. Only when they saw the meteoric rise of Apple and how people started to no longer consider Microsoft at the vanguard of technological breakthroughs, did Microsoft start to consider hardware innovation seriously. This resulted in the introduction of Surface Book laptops which are now considered to be among the best, and also bring in great revenue for Microsoft
Secondly, It's not only our own past but the past of other leaders that can help leadership to improve.For example, Martin Luther King Jr. was greatly inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's tactics to secure India's freedom, like Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence. Martin used these tactics to his advantage and was successfull in securing rights for african americans in U.S.A.
However, sometime past is of no use to leadership as well. In other words, there are many situations where the tactics used in the past cannot be applied today. For example, Monarchy was prevalent in historic times because it was more convenient then to control to population as it was small in comparison to today's world. Now democracy and other forms of government are prevalent simply to accmodate for variety of opinions.
Conclusively, we can say that learning from the past is cardinal for acquiring good leadership skills.
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Message: Did you mean 'than'?
Suggestion: than
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, while, as to, for example, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1689.0 2235.4752809 76% => OK
No of words: 325.0 442.535393258 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19692307692 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.55969084622 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85521882808 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.603076923077 0.4932671777 122% => OK
syllable_count: 525.6 704.065955056 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.4991949396 60.3974514979 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.6 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6666666667 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.93333333333 5.21951772744 171% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253478447949 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0969340753146 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.200814047195 0.0758088955206 265% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14306292349 0.150359130593 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.167563600132 0.0667264976115 251% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.29 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.