The best leaders encourage feedback from those whom they lead.
"You don't have to be a sheep to be a shepherd", it is famously said. Yet, to be a leader of the herd you have to emerge from the same stock. After all leaders of any human race emerge not from Giant Pandas but from amongst themselves. The leader of a wolf-pack is not Mowgli, a man-cub, but another wolf.
This brings us to the question whether a leader is an embodiment of the thoughts of the led or he shapes the thoughts of the people he leads. The answer is complex and yet obvious. Usually a leader emerges as a champion of the cause of the people, a path to the aspirations and ambitions of the people. However, along the path he moves ahead of the cause, the reason for the collective to form, to then take them beyond with his vision. A leader is not a sum of parts, he is a visionary and enabler, someone who can visualize the pinnacle, chart a course and lead the team to it.
Does this mean that he does not need feedback from the flock? Au contraire, it would be suicidal to think so. In the modern political arena, a leader who ignores the feedback from his people, is doomed to fail. the captain of a football team needs the inputs from the rest of the team, for he doesn't have eyes in every corner of the field. A military leader similarly needs to obtain feedback from the from as well as the remote and the rear to assess his position. Hence, to get the best inputs, the leader must encourage feedback from his people.
The vexing aspect of this issue is whether that is his only role? To get feedback and act upon it? This is where I digress from the thought. A leader is not an accountant who takes the feedbacks and churns out a balance sheet. He needs his people to be his eyes and ears to give him inputs and to enforce a course-correction if required. However, any leader who remains within those inputs is unlikely to go very far. The essence of leadership essentially being to take the bits and convert them into larger vision by initiating and harnessing processes towards a larger vision. He is in a position of leadership to to lead, not to be led. The captain is not a messenger of the feedbacks of the team, he is the one who takes them on the path to success and victory.
To conclude, it may be suicidal for a leader to ignore feedback from the people whom they lead, but it would make a weak leader if goes not beyond the inputs, the latter being essential only as far as charting and correction of the course.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, may, similarly, so, then, well, after all, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2014.0 2235.4752809 90% => OK
No of words: 463.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.34989200864 5.05705443957 86% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45285444377 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455723542117 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 616.5 704.065955056 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.59117977528 82% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 15.0 4.99550561798 300% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.7095176085 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.56 118.986275619 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.52 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.12 5.21951772744 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.83258426966 290% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.333270093611 0.243740707755 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0872003485836 0.0831039109588 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0867349623372 0.0758088955206 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183530442034 0.150359130593 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0831857815206 0.0667264976115 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.3 14.1392134831 59% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 78.59 48.8420337079 161% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 12.1743820225 56% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 7.95 12.1639044944 65% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.33 8.38706741573 87% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 100.480337079 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.7820224719 59% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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