The best way for society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or other fields in by instilling them a sense of cooperation, not competition.
The best way for society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or other fields in by instilling them a sense of cooperation, not competition. I do not agree with this statement.
Leadership is a very complex concept as there really is no set of rules that makes one a good leader. When I think about a good leader, lots of names come to my mind - Abraham Lincoln, Narendra Modi in government settings, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Ratan Tata in technology industrial settings and Roy Keane, Paulo Maldini and Johan Cryuff in sports. Each of these great leaders have their noble qualities and idiosyncracies that make them great but one of the underlying entity that unites them all, is the spirit of competition. A competetive notion of earning the right to proclaim their contingent or company or nation as the best. This vision of wanting to be the best is what drives the leader and that energy is often translated to their followers as well. When you have a clear vision, it is easier to motivate yourself when the situations are exacting.
Of course a good leader must know how to maintain harmony and cooperation in a team but being competitive does not mean that the leader cannot do that. The leader needs to be competitive in the right way. He cannot set out to propagate the feeling of competition within his team but he needs to make sure that his team are out there to win; they are out there to beat the opposition.
Take Steve Jobs for example. He was competitive and even set out to mock his competitors in his famous presentations and speeches. But it was his desire to be the best that translated to his company. He was able to drive them to go beyonnd their bandwidths and achieve things which they did not believe they were capable of doing. In context of Jobs, one of the Apple employees very famously said that they were able to do the impossible because they did not know it was impossible. It is this kind of motivation and passion that comes from the spirit of competition.
To conclude, I would like to say that excess of anything is definitely not good. Being competitive brings the best out of a team but obsessively competing or going out of the way to be competitive often drags a leader and his team down. The leader must learn to achieve the right balance of competition and cooperation in order to get the best of both concepts.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, really, so, still, well, for example, i think, kind of, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1970.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 427.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.61358313817 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65772029371 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496487119438 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 613.8 704.065955056 87% => 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: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9064268308 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.5 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.35 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.21951772744 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21216019084 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0753764861039 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.21398969819 0.0758088955206 282% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199888092997 0.150359130593 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.312848585129 0.0667264976115 469% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.1392134831 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.8420337079 137% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.46 12.1639044944 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 100.480337079 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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