Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.
For a leader, while it may seem tempting, even necessary, to solely focus on the issues of today and discount history as irrelevant, the past can, if studied judiciously, be of immense help in the pursuit of leadership.
As humans we are blessed with a rich and diverse history. The scope of knowledge one can harness from history is practically infinite. The pages of history are filled with examples of leaders who have relied upon the experiences of earlier leaders, historical accounts of situations analogous to ones the leader was facing.
Consider the example of M. S. Dhoni and Virat Kohli, the former and current captains of the Indian international cricket team respectively. Dhoni has under his belt a huge experience given that he had been leading the team successfully for years. The current captain, Kohli does not hesitate to seek advice from Dhoni. He even scrupulously watches games played under the captainship of Dhoni to understand the hows and whys of what made Dhoni the most successful captain of the Indian cricket team. As a result, result we can see that Kohli is on a similar path that of Dhoni of a successful captainship.
Building upon this example, albeit misguidedly, one might argue that Kohli is successful because he refers to the past that was successful. However, in doing so one ignores the important fact that there is a lot, if not more, to be learnt from failures as well. As knowing the whys and hows of why something was a success is of paramount importance, knowing the details of failure is of tantamount importance. Failure is undoubtedly one of the most efficacious factors in learning especially for leaders for whom retrospection is a must.
With enough ingenuity multiple parallels can the drawn from the given example above and it becomes clear that the same is true regardless of the field. The past is indeed a great teacher and leaders must leverage this invaluable source of wisdom in furthering their causes.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, so, well, while, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1643.0 2235.4752809 73% => OK
No of words: 332.0 442.535393258 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94879518072 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79635381231 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 215.323595506 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.572289156627 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 704.065955056 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 6.24550561798 16% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5165886579 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.6875 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.75 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.875 5.21951772744 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0690941907838 0.243740707755 28% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0209232329806 0.0831039109588 25% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0282012580565 0.0758088955206 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0367897636609 0.150359130593 24% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0270118995162 0.0667264976115 40% => 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: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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