All too often, companies hire outside consultants to suggest ways for the company to operate more efficiently. If companies were to spend more time listening to their own employees, such consultants would be unnecessary.
The speaker claims that companies should listen to their own employees for suggestions on the direction of the company. I consider this viewpoint to be parochial and a stymie to the growth of the company. I strongly disagree with the claim for the following three reasons.
A company reaches the heights that it intends to when it is run efficiently with goals that are achievable to keep it's shareholders happy and have their confidence. this is done only when the targets are reached and the company if not run well would be in peril. What factor determines if the company is working efficiently and if the work done by it's employees is in fact driving the company forwards. is it the revenue that the company is generating, it's share price, how profitable the company is or the market share? one cannot put a finger on the factor that defines the success of the company which is why a consultant who has no idea of how the company works beforehand would work as a mirror to
show
how the company is performing and where it is heading.
There are companies that have great potential and the confidence in the growth of these companies is shown by independent wealthy investers who believe the idea to be decade or century defining. Although these companies are start ups with a brilliant generation defining idea, they are still run by the 'geek' of the class who have no business expertise and how to push the company forwards. A consultant or an expert can help forsee any undue challenges that the start-up might face. The best example that comes to mind is We work. it was endorsed by SouthBank to be the 'next big thing', but an erratic ceo and overvalued stock ultimately led to the firing of the ceo and the company is moribund. thus, it seems logical for a comaony with such potential to have third eye watching over it and keeping the company from going errant.
The finance and how the company runs plays a big role in the company's success. For example a comapany cannot go on a spending spree and buy every other competetion on the market. Nor can the company lose sight of it's goals and spend heavy on one area, placing bets on it to work. A company would go in debt and be bankrupt if a 'great Depression' or 'The Housing Crisis' is repeated like in the case of HQ Trivia. thus, it is essential that comapny look at it's financials from a consultant who can guide out of the abyss if such a situation arises because often times the employees are not aware of the workings at the managemnet level.
Finally, I would like to conclude that a company would succeed of if it has a mirror in front of it to
show
the mistakes.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, if, look, so, still, third, thus, well, for example, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2167.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 478.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.53347280335 5.05705443957 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53071760739 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476987447699 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 681.3 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0772698957 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.35 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7 5.21951772744 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.369688888333 0.243740707755 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114154044471 0.0831039109588 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064392023439 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194506592861 0.150359130593 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0499216955337 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 48.8420337079 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.29 12.1639044944 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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