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

The claim that the best way to teach leadership qualities to the current generation is to instill in them a sense of cooperation instead of a sense of competition is something that I agree with. Cooperation essentially means working together effectively and is an important quality that leaders should possess.

Although people usually view cooperation as a sign of weakness in a human being, it helps us learn from one another. Through constant collaboration, future leaders can try and learn a lot of valuable lessons from others' experiences. For example, a captain of a football team could provide better insight about how to approach a potential cup final if he had talked to the senior players or former captains of the team who have played such type of matches before. Instead, had he tried to approach the game with a know-it-all attitude and just tried to outdo former captains (in order to appear to be the best captain), the team performance could suffer as a whole.

Leaders should also aim to motivate their subordinates to perform better. A leader who rises through the ranks by only being fiercly motivated by competition will often not guide his subordinates in a conducive manner. And thus, instead of improving the quality of the organization as a whole, the leader will only work towards his/her personal goals. By working with others, we also learn to appreciate the point of view of a person with an opposing view which often motivates us to look at our opinions with critique. It is often seen that people who are always competing with each other tend to cut corners in order to gain an advantage - whether it be in completing a task before the deadline or in doing more work than required in order to gain favors among their superiors.

Further, most of the great leaders in history have achieved their goals through cooperation instead of competition. As seen in the Indian freedom movement, Mahatma Gandhi helped India attain freedom by uniting different parts of the country to work towards their common goal of gaining independence. Being a diverse country, people in different areas all had their own agendas and had they started competing with one another, the failure of this movement would have been inevitable. They were brought together by Gandhi, who instilled in them the importance of working together and how collaborating with others will almost always lead to success.

Nonetheless, a little competition is also helpful as humans are a competitive species by nature. Competing with other people is a strong motivating factor for most and this helps them achieve their potential. The issue with competion is that often people get sucked into a hole and spend their entire lives trying to outdo other; instead of looking at the big picture of things.

Therefore, to sum it up, preparing youngsters for leadership in different fields such as government, industry, etc. should be done by motivating them to learn how to cooperate with others instead of trying to turn everything that they do into a competition.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, look, nonetheless, so, still, therefore, thus, for example, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 92.0 58.6224719101 157% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2549.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 510.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99803921569 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74684426139 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521568627451 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 780.3 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.9689841089 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.45 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.85 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.242588952821 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0727343611591 0.0831039109588 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0400265906239 0.0758088955206 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12613428548 0.150359130593 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384543761781 0.0667264976115 58% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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