Do you agree with the statement - It’s better to be a follower than to be leader ?
Ubiquitously, the notion that being a leader is far more superior to being a follower is well-received. Proponents of this viewpoint cite the greatness and allure attached to leadership to make their case. However, in my opinion, in general, a follower is in a more advantageous position than the leader.I will explore the reasons for my position in the following essay.
First and foremost , followers tend to live a far more balanced life than those who they look up to. If you are a leader, you will constantly find yourself in an unchartered space. This area of unknown necessitates high risk taking abilities which in turn translates to a greater character required to deal with failures that would crop up every now and then. In contrast , a follower is never carrying a canary in a coal mine. It’s task is much easier in a sense that it doesn’t have to evaluate threats that the novel environment packs within. My personal experience is a compelling example of this. When I was in university, I pounced on an opportunity to lead a team of six on a business project. The pressures of accountability along with the stress of navigating the team through unfavourable business cimate at the time, took a heavy toll on my well-being. In comparison, team members by virtue of being less accountable came out of the same period without experiencing the sam e perturbations that I felt during that time. Furthermore, they lead a more rounded life by working for fixed hours rather than spending most of their time in work-related affairs as done by leaders
Secondly, leadership involves resource management. A domain that is burdensome for most individuals. Most people don’t want to be dependent on others for their work. When employees were quizzed, majority were in favour of relying on their character and skillset to accomplish their tasks as opposed to leveraging human potential in the form of team members. They confessed that they don’t trust their members and rather find this style of working extremely inefficacious. On the contrary, subordinates are not saddled with such responsibilities. This implies that no time is spent on managing people and allocating funds granting them more time to perfect their work-products.
All in all, the argument that followers are better than leaders is a complex one with the proponets citing the exponential learning curve of the leader to bolster their argument. However, I strongly feel that being a follower allows you to maintain great work life balace.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, well, in contrast, in general, in my opinion, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2121.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 417.0 407.700716846 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08633093525 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03390200526 2.67179642975 114% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 212.727598566 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575539568345 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 657.9 618.680645161 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.9413200533 48.9658058833 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.0 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8571428571 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.09523809524 5.45110844103 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.5376344086 163% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275113866402 0.236089414692 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738776702838 0.076458572812 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0768305500505 0.0737576698707 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191786815176 0.150856017488 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0822844719892 0.0645574589148 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 86.8835125448 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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