Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.
This reminds me of a quote, "History is a guide to navigate through perilious times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are." Hence, past is the guiding light for anyone who is faced with a decision in present, and their reactions, thinking and decisions in those times will determine their future. Therefore, understanding the past is really important and holds the key to unlocking any dillemas of the present.
Knowing the history is even more important for people in leadership positions; be it human history, social history or history related to a very specific issue they are facing. Since, the past teaches us lessons about what our predecessors faced, how they dealt with it and what were the results. We often face small or big choices in our daily life and our previous interactions, historical knowledge etc. enables us to decide on which path to adapt in the said situation. Similarly for people in leadersip roles, whether on a global level or in a very small familial units must know about the past to lead themselves and their followers into the future.
Life, like science, gives us experimental choices and whatever we choose at certain point has a multifold impact in future. Hence, if one has historical knowledge and knows of similar instances in the past, they are able to make better decisions in view of the same and get better results.
Leaders are not only responsible for themselves, but several other people, based on their span of control. Therefore, with this added responsibility, they should be more knowledgeable than an ordinary person and should seek guidance from relevant quarters like literature, history, wise counsels etc. This enables them to make informed decisions and decrease the chance of failure.
On the otherhand, the presumption in prompt that knowledge of past is not very useful for current leaders may seem valid to charismatic leaders, who think that they can tackle any situation in a whim, without considering the past or any other relevant facts based on their intelligence. This strategy may succeed partly, but for a larger sample this may result in sudden shifts in strategy, especially when a decision goes awry. Thinking on the go is a tough task and makes a leader's job unpredictable and dodgy. Repeated shifts may result in people losing confidence in their leaders and accordingly making their lives tougher.
Therefore, in my opinion one cannot understate importance of knowledge of history for leaders whether they are in any walk of life, be it politics, bueraucracy, military, business and so forth. Knowing the past is key to unlocking a better future.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 474, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Similarly,
...ch path to adapt in the said situation. Similarly for people in leadersip roles, whether ...
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Line 5, column 114, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...at certain point has a multifold impact in future. Hence, if one has historical knowledge...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, hence, if, may, really, similarly, so, therefore, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2219.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 441.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03174603175 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77742697586 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532879818594 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 701.1 704.065955056 100% => 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: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.6528356062 60.3974514979 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.789473684 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2105263158 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.26315789474 5.21951772744 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105537803517 0.243740707755 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0292498819469 0.0831039109588 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0417143814655 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0481188397393 0.150359130593 32% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307116842728 0.0667264976115 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => 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: 12.19 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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