The best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or other fields is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation, not competition
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
There have been several theories about the issue of leadership and how a society can build great leaders. Some people believe that leaders are born and not made, while others believe that the core essence of leadership is the ability to acquire new skills and apply them. To understand this concept of leadership, and increase our knowledge on how to prepare the young for the tasks ahead, the prompt argues that the best way a society can prepare its young for leadership in various fields is by imbibing in them an act of cooperation, and not competition. I mostly agree with this claim for two reasons which I will elucidate below. However, I do concede that in some cases, a sense competition indeed makes a better leader.
To begin, leaders that operate through cooperation tends to achieve more than leaders that function through competitions and rivalries. An adage says that 'it is easy to break a single broomstick, whereas it will take a huge force to break a bunch of them'. This depicts the power that lies in cooperation among members of any group. A leader who ensures cooperation among his teammates or colleagues tends to foster creativity and productivity more than a leader that is more concerned about comparing the strenghts of different workers with one another. For instance, a leader of a finance industry that works solely on delegating different tasks to different members will have different people working on different things according to their area of specialization. This will enable the workers to be more effective in their respective niches without been in competition about how other people that might be doing better than them. As a result of such cooperative model, the company tends to achieve a better result compared to a company that promotes competition.
Secondly, a leader that triumph competition as opposed to cooperation tends to welcome an hostile environment, which might be detrimental to the organization. In most cases, competition, rivalry, and acrimony goes hand in hand. A leader that encourage, or employ competition in his methods will most likely promote lack of harmony and cause alienation amongst the workers. This estrangement might affect the productivity of such company, and might lead to much greater negative impact on the company. To ensure a much friendly work environment, it is advisable for leaders to instill the spirit of cooperation amongst the workers instead of promoting competition.
Admiteddly, there are situations that leaders to employ the method of competition while governing an organization. In extreme cases, whereby instances of low productivity, or increasing apathy of workers towards their tasks, a leader might encourage competitions amongst workers so as to increase productivity. For instance, a leader might organize competitions that will award the best performing worker, or the most diligent worker, or the most puntual worker in his department. This might encourage worker's enthusiasm towards their work, and might increase productivity and efficiency of the company.
To conclude, the best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or any field is to teach them the act of cooperation, and how to lead by this act. Nevertheless, the society should not totally neglect the effectiveness of competition in leadership while raising these young leaders.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 30.0 12.9106741573 232% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2858.0 2235.4752809 128% => OK
No of words: 544.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25367647059 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95699560175 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.454044117647 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 891.0 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 11.0 1.77640449438 619% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6668200508 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.260869565 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.652173913 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.08695652174 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243262951101 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0698847205714 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0753008247629 0.0758088955206 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161994520916 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107572279548 0.0667264976115 161% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
There have been several theories about t...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tition indeed makes a better leader. To begin, leaders that operate through c...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...a company that promotes competition. Secondly, a leader that triumph competit...
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Line 5, column 96, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...opposed to cooperation tends to welcome an hostile environment, which might be det...
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Line 5, column 520, Rule ID: A_MUCH_NN1[1]
Message: Maybe you should omit the article "a", leaving only 'much'.
Suggestion: much
...gative impact on the company. To ensure a much friendly work environment, it is advisa...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rs instead of promoting competition. Admiteddly, there are situations that le...
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Line 7, column 288, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
... encourage competitions amongst workers so as to increase productivity. For instance, a ...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ivity and efficiency of the company. To conclude, the best way for a society ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, still, thus, whereas, while, as to, for instance, as a result, in most cases, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 30.0 12.9106741573 232% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2858.0 2235.4752809 128% => OK
No of words: 544.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25367647059 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95699560175 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.454044117647 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 891.0 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 11.0 1.77640449438 619% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6668200508 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.260869565 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.652173913 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.08695652174 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243262951101 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0698847205714 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0753008247629 0.0758088955206 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161994520916 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107572279548 0.0667264976115 161% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.