Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and

It is true to some extent that the past is of little value to leaders who wish gain insights to help them carry out their roles in a more effective manner. It maybe so because there could be vast differences in the priorties of leaders who held the position previously. Let us consider the case of Microsoft 's Steve Balmer who was bullish in the later half of the decade in expanding his company's line of products , solely focusing on building products for desktop computes since that is what helped them achieve a dominant position towards the end of the twentieth century. However going in to the next century this approach backfired and he now found himself struggling to maintain the status of being market leader as competitors diversed into building products for mobile as well as desktop computers and his company could not keep up since their focus lied on building only one line of products.

Often circumstances play a huge part in deciding the path leader takes to guide their organization as well. The communist regime of China shunned its agrarian approach of the early 90's and made an agressive approach to industrialize its economy which is now paying dividends as it sees itself as one the most successful economies of the past decade.

The demographics of a society also force their leaders to choose a path different to their predecessors because their needs and aspirations have changed. The youth may tend to focus on learning new skills to elevate themselves out of poverty while the generation prior to them may want to consolidate on what has worked for them in the past. It is a fine line that leaders have to learn to tread to strike a balance between the two.

However leaders must be careful that in the quest for change they don't forgo their values and ethics which have been instilled in them . Afterall it is the mistakes of the past from which they must learn and ensure it leaves a legacy to look upon once the relinquish their position.

There must indeed be subtle balance between the needs of the future while the leaders should also consolidate on the strengths they have acquired by the experience from the past. In the quest for change one must not look to reinvent the wheel.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, look, may, so, still, well, while, as well as, it is true

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1845.0 2235.4752809 83% => OK
No of words: 388.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.75515463918 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50247609135 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541237113402 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 567.0 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => 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: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.9216350888 60.3974514979 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.923076923 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.8461538462 23.4991977007 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.84615384615 5.21951772744 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 15.0 7.80617977528 192% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0875225228783 0.243740707755 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0333539723502 0.0831039109588 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0208188107779 0.0758088955206 27% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0489497653062 0.150359130593 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0213631320706 0.0667264976115 32% => 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: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.92 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 100.480337079 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 11.8971910112 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
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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