Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.
"Those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it" is a very powerful quote that explains to us the importance of past actions and their repercussions. The author of the prompt makes an assertion that past events are of very little use to people in leadership positions which I strongly disagree with. The reasons for this stance are explained in detail in the following paragraphs.
For business leaders knowing how the actions and decisions made by their predecessors affected the business is very helpful because it tells them pitfalls and potential roadblocks that they might encounter. For instance, when Ratan Tata, the chairman of the Tata group decided to invest in airline business he had the good fortune of having his predecessor JRD Tata's mistakes in the aviation field which he avoided and thus made TataSIA airlines a profitable venture. This also shows Ratan Tata's business acumen, cause he didn't rely heavily upon the past decision cause he understood that circumstances and facts have changed. So basically he took the past failures empirically and modified the lessons that they had learned from past failures and applied to the current scenario and managed to emerge profitable in the highly difficult airline business.
For political leaders, this means implementing schemes with a high rate of efficiency like the MGNRES(Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme) which was started in the early 2000s by the then government of AB Vajpayee and continued by the current Indian government under Narendra Modi. The current government has modified this employment scheme and made it more efficient after understanding the effects and the repercussions of it. They have, as well, made changes to it cause the circumstances from the early 2000s have changed and will further use it for the benefit of the people.
In science, we had Thomas Alva Edison fail a thousand times while making a light bulb after which he is quoted to have famously said,"I have not failed but I have understood how not to make a light bulb". From his previous failures, Edison understood better about making a light bulb and was finally successful in making a long lasting commercial one.
From the examples given in the above essay, we can say with confidence that past experiences help us in making better decisions if we understand the facts and circumstances under which those decisions were taken and the repercussions they had. They are sort of guiding light that helps us in making better decisions and further in accurately visualizing the consequences of our future decisions. Hence, their importance cannot be neglected.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, if, so, then, thus, well, while, for instance, sort of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2243.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 429.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22843822844 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80576970947 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 690.3 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => 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: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.5020209652 60.3974514979 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.533333333 118.986275619 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.6 23.4991977007 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => 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: 0.155961194108 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.050092797648 0.0831039109588 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0739771383331 0.0758088955206 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0794330959687 0.150359130593 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0604488815566 0.0667264976115 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.65 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.15 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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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.