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 disc

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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.

What makes an ordinary human being a leader? In my humble opinion, what differentiates a leader from a John Doe is his or her ability to gain the good-will and support from a variety of people, empathize with the others no matter what their weaknesses or foils are and the quality of being forbearing throughout the journey to success. Considering these three elements, what is striking and crucial for a leader; cooperation or competition? According to many pedagogical experts, while the first is acquired by teamwork during childhood, the latter is especially obtained with a grade-oriented, performance-based way of study at school. The stance of the author of the prompt is crystal clear; it is stated that in order for a child to be a successful leader in any kind of field, sense of cooperation is a crucial characteristic, rather than competition.

Many experts assert that sense of cooperation and competition are complementary features for a leader. Since a leader should be able vie for his position in the field in the beginning; sense of competition is vital. He or she should be able to surpass the competitors or rivals and show the supporters or constituents that "the one with solutions" is him or her. For instance, before the presidential elections in the United States, the candidates get together in a TV program and criticize each other. These programs provide a great source of information for the floating voters. In order to defeat the competitor with words, a leader should be able to outweigh why the others should be voting for him or her, rather than the other person. This feature requires a sense of competition, in order to be a leader, one must be in a never-ending competition with the rivals.

However, the leader should also be able to work in a team. The United States or almost any other country in the World -except for the autocratic, anti-democratic states- is ruled not by a single person; but rather a group of bureaucrats managed by one single leader. The buttress of this can be seen in almost any meeting of Donald Trump with the press. He asks questions to his consultants while answering most of the questions he receives, especially the questions about significant matters, related to the international relations. Because no matter how intelligent or well-rounded a person is, every person needs a second opinion or a contradictive approach. This is why a sense of cooperation, being able to be a part of a team is so important for a leader.

On the other hand, even though both sense of cooperation and competition are vital for a leader; experts claim that raising children in a competitive atmosphere can also be detrimental. Because competition inhibits stress in children, which may result in alienation from school or family in the end. Also, "fake competitions" poses another threat. In schools where all the children are rewarded even though they are the last ones on a competition, the successful children feel that their urge to success worth nothing. Thus, even though sense of competition is so important in raising the leaders of the future, one must be so careful and find a way in between.

As a result, even though the author states that the sense of competition is not important in raising a leader, I believe that it is just as important as the sense of cooperation. Because one person needs to be competitive in order to surpass the rivals and take the lead. However, in order to rule a country or a company, the leader also has to be the part of a team which provides him or her with different approaches to different matters.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, thus, well, while, as to, except for, for instance, kind of, as a result, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.5258426966 195% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 89.0 58.6224719101 152% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3019.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 615.0 442.535393258 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90894308943 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97987886753 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07893639039 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450406504065 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 947.7 704.065955056 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 10.0 3.10617977528 322% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.9958261335 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.115384615 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6538461538 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.34615384615 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.321219760226 0.243740707755 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102786765961 0.0831039109588 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0804976699589 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196646657878 0.150359130593 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0520252295031 0.0667264976115 78% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 100.480337079 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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