Any leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shifts in popular opinion will accomplish little.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
In various contexts, leaders find themselves in a situation that compels them to compare their own opinion with popular one. Some argue for the importance of strict adherence to one’s own position while others claim that leaders benefit from listening to popular opinion as a means to shape their path to accomplishment. This is clearly a controversial and subjective topic in nature, but a quick reflection on Bernie Sanders from the political world coupled with Steve Jobs in the context of the business sector reveals that successful leaders have a certain uncompromising attitude when it comes to their own opinions.
The primary example that lends support to the presented statement is Bernie Sanders, an Independent presidential candidate in the US. Known for his tenacious principle to lessen the tremendous influence that corporate donors have on US elections, he has successfully revolutionized the political sphere, thereby invigorating young voters who would not have participated in politics otherwise. For instance, by adamantly refusing to accept corporate donations and instead solely relying on smaller-scale donations from regular citizens, he sent a signal to the public that democratic elections occur at the grass-roots level, not from the top down. Through this untraditional way of fundraising that he adhered to, he managed to raise a record-breaking level of money to support his campaign. Although he did not manage to win the primaries, it is fair to argue that his adherence to change the political sphere awash in corporate money is the reason why he energized the young electorate. In view of this case, it would be reasonable to argue that a leader should maintain his or her position even in the face of remarkable odds.
In addition to the aforementioned example from politics, Steve Jobs from the business world serves as evidence in support of the statement. Praised as one of the most successful CEOs in the technology sector, Steve Jobs’ uncompromising belief in product design appears to be the very driver that earned Apple its world-wide status. Particularly, as a means to compete with Microsoft, he contributed to the invention of the Macintosh computer whose exterior design as well as interface significantly differed from that of the existing products. Although his employees as well as executives were skeptical of this unorthodox way, Steve Jobs decided to stick to his own business acumen and managed to produce one of the most popular products in the industry today. In light of this success, it stands to reason that the ability to maintain a stance regardless popular opinion opposed to it can result in great accomplishment.
Yet, while the cases of Bernie Sanders and Steve Jobs exemplify the importance of adherence to one’s own opinion, we cannot go as far to argue that leaders should completely discount popular opinion. Rather, it would be wise to have an open-minded attitude to popular opinion and be able to rationally analyze it. For instance, if we revisit the history of gay marriage, it was in part the public opinion that led to the legalization of it in 2015. As the public opinion in support of it started to surge, it is said that Barack Obama paused to reconsider his position on this issue instead of dismissing it. While he was criticized for this “flip-flop,” this shows how important it can be to maintain a careful balance of sticking to one’s own belief and hearing the other side. As such, given the magnitude of the legalization of gay marriage, it is indeed important in certain cases to understand popular opinion as a litmus test of one’s own opinion.
In summary, while there are numerous arguments to be made for both sides, the cases of Bernie Sanders and Steve Jobs demonstrate that leaders benefit from having a solid stance on their own opinions. However, as evinced in the example of Barack Obama in the gay-marriage context, it could be wise to maintain open-mindedness towards popular opinion as it may inform one’s tenets.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 663, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
... was criticized for this 'flip-flop,' this shows how important it can be to ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'well', 'while', 'for instance', 'in addition', 'in summary', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.239892183288 0.240241500013 100% => OK
Verbs: 0.136118598383 0.157235817809 87% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0970350404313 0.0880659088768 110% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0390835579515 0.0497285424764 79% => OK
Pronouns: 0.05525606469 0.0444667217837 124% => OK
Prepositions: 0.138814016173 0.12292977631 113% => OK
Participles: 0.0283018867925 0.0406280797675 70% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.04685592663 2.79330140395 109% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0539083557951 0.030933414821 174% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0902964959569 0.0997080785238 91% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0134770889488 0.0249443105267 54% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0121293800539 0.0148568991511 82% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 4060.0 2732.02544248 149% => OK
No of words: 660.0 452.878318584 146% => OK
Chars per words: 6.15151515152 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06857624559 4.58838876751 110% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.39696969697 0.366273622748 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.324242424242 0.280924506359 115% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.210606060606 0.200843997647 105% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.157575757576 0.132149295362 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04685592663 2.79330140395 109% => OK
Unique words: 309.0 219.290929204 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468181818182 0.48968727796 96% => OK
Word variations: 58.7262588167 55.4138127331 106% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 23.380412469 128% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.308724166 59.4972553346 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 184.545454545 141.124799967 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0 23.380412469 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.674092028746 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 62.4242424242 51.4728631049 121% => OK
Elegance: 1.76608187135 1.64882698954 107% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.309332995425 0.391690518653 79% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.140637203599 0.123202303941 114% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0487112558498 0.077325440228 63% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.617728495268 0.547984918172 113% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0813923778833 0.149214159877 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157169386545 0.161403998019 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0488841922509 0.0892212321368 55% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.524966101935 0.385218514788 136% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.070784527133 0.0692045440612 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.239294135155 0.275328986314 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0246219581608 0.0653680567796 38% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.4325221239 182% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30420353982 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88274336283 20% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 3.66592920354 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 13.0 13.5995575221 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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