Some people argue that successful leaders in government, industry, or other fields must be highly competitive. Other people claim that in order to be successful, a leader must be willing and able to cooperate with others.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Leadership demands both, competitiveness and cooperation, these are two sides of a coin. The value of coin is nothing if any of its side is missing. Similarly, a good leader has to have competitive skills and should be able to work in co-operation at different fronts. But it is not possible to practice both approaches at the same time, it completely depends on situation. If any leader is being pressured from senior or more powerful bodies, he has to wait for the right time to get what is desired. There are several more factors emphasizing that presence of both qualities is a prerequisite for being a successful leader.
To begin with, being competitive is the fundamental quality of successful leader. Lacking the required competitiveness can effect one's position badly and may result in getting replaced by other competitors. For an instance, as soon as the Tata Industries of India found out that current Chairman Mr. Cyrus Mistry is not performing up to the mark, he was replaced by the former chairman himself. Therefore, consistent performance and competition is vital for any leader in any field government, or private.
Moreover, not being able to cope up with fellow and senior workers can create problems in more than expected ways. It is necessary to consider problems that people are facing. If any leader works with an attitude which is concerned only with the well being of subordinates or self, he might be ignoring the problems that senior officers might be facing. And soon enough he might be standing isolated, fighting for ideas that might not materialize. Take for an example, if an employee union leader stands adamant for laborers' increments, without considering that their company is not making any profits to fulfill union's demands, he will be ousted soon.
On the other hand, people might say that a leader can only be competitive or co-operative, but it is not necessary. As most of us have observed in our day to day life, that the approach absolutely depends on present circumstances. Sometimes we have to be adamant and sometimes we have to be magnanimous.
Conclusively, a good leader will be shrewd in his judgement. Sagacious leaders understand the situation subtly and adapt their approach accordingly.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, if, may, moreover, similarly, so, therefore, well, as to, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.5258426966 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2271.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 447.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08053691275 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92311136873 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525727069351 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 709.2 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.9728691821 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.625 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.625 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.21951772744 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.465518618409 0.243740707755 191% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141838238799 0.0831039109588 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.183776339514 0.0758088955206 242% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.258603721675 0.150359130593 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.263561289475 0.0667264976115 395% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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