Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.
Leadership is a skill that is developed with experience. However, it's not possible for one person to have all the experience in solving all the problems that he or she might face. This is where the role of his predecessors comes into play. Therefore I thoroughly disagree with the author's statement that understanding the past is of little use to current leaders.
Looking at the various technological advancements that have come in this century itself right from self-driving cars to superfast computers. However, as the past has taught us all good innovations come in negatives. Some people lurking behind in the shadows ready to pounce and use these inventions for destructive purposes. One invention that could have destroyed the world was the atomic bomb. Originally uranium was found and used for supplying energy. But during world war 2 , the USA developed the atomic bomb causing massive destruction and huge loss of life and property. Seeing this once the war ended, the leaders of the world met and decided never to use that bomb again. To this date, this agreement has never been broken simply because the cost is too high. Formation of the united nation was another step taken in this accord.
Human society has been in constant evolution since its inception. The societal problems faced by the cavemen differ vastly from what we face today. Nevertheless, in a constantly evolving model, leaders in each era gleaned the necessary lessons from history and applied them to solve current problems. For example, racism has been a social malady for a very long time. In mitigating this problem, leaders have come up with solutions that often reshaped society and changed our outlook. Any society and its leaders in current positions who are considering exploiting racism and imposing racial segregation laws, need not look far than the revolutions led by Nelson Mandela. Knowing that these segregation laws are eventually nullified, leaders in current positions will certainly refrain from imposing them.
Further one must not always look at the successes of the past. Going back to the Delhi Sultanate era, one famous ruler Tuglaq decided to make various changes in his kingdom. He stopped making paper currency and started using iron coins. However, they were easily copied by common people and soon there were too many counterfeits. Similarly, he decided to change his capital from Delhi to Indore but that failed miserably as well. Most leaders that came after him, learned from his mistakes and have not repeated them. Delhi has remained the capital of India ever since that day. A leader must try to imbibe the successes of his predecessors and learns from their mistakes to not make them again.
A successful leader does not only have a knowledge of contemporary issues but also possesses an acumen for extracting valuable lessons from past incidents. Therefore understanding and learning from the past are the most important skills that a leader must have in order to guide the people under him through the several crises' that they might face.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, nevertheless, similarly, so, therefore, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2566.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 504.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09126984127 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58700575276 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 284.0 215.323595506 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563492063492 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 801.0 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.3729700303 60.3974514979 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5333333333 118.986275619 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8 23.4991977007 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.9 5.21951772744 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.158729643336 0.243740707755 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0386382023273 0.0831039109588 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0671233854149 0.0758088955206 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0930588015794 0.150359130593 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0606740917998 0.0667264976115 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.8420337079 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 100.480337079 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.