Although sound moral judgment is an important characteristic of an effective leader, it is not as important as a leader’s ability to maintain the respect of his or her peers.
Over the centuries, a lot of people have been interested in what it takes to be an effective leader. Countless number of experiments and studies have gone into the problem but there has been little consensus as to which exact factors are most important. The general agreement is that traits like critical thinking, vision, ability to mainatin respect of peers and critics, sound moral thinking among others as equally important. Thus, to assert that a leader's ability to maintain the respect of his or her peers is more important than having sound moral judgement is misleading. I believe that that sound moral judgement is at least as important as maintaining respect for at least two cogent reasons.
First, a leader is chosen to lead a set of people because he/ she is believed to be able to drive them in the right direction in order to achieve their goals efficiently and effectively. He or she does this by taking sound decisions. As pyschologists have shown, one important component of the quality of your decisions is the strength of your moral convinction and judgement. For example, in the book, Built to Last by foremost leadership experts, it was explicitly proven, by the means of well conducted scientific researches, that while every leader is prone to mistaken judgement, the best leaders are those who have sound moral judgement and could stand by their decision even in the face of opposition as long as it agrees their enduring principles, the same ones that they had when they were chosen as leaders. As leader are chosen not to liked by all and sundry (even though it is important that they are) but to achieve results, it is clear that sound moral judgement is just as important as the ability to maintain the respect of your peers.
Second, a leader has to have sound moral judgement in order not be swayed by sycophants and jingoists who always praises him/ her despite the quality of this or her decision. Without a sound moral judgement, a leader might be easily misled by the fake supporters that surrounds him or her. For the leader to be effective, the leader must not only know how to see through his own moral blindness but also that of his peers. For example, many Germans adored Hitler during the second world war and this led him to extremes that he could not come back from. Pyschologists have argued that this syndrome is similar in all bad leaders who later become dicators. Without a sound moral judgement, they are prone to thinking they can do no wrong and with adoring followership (who may entirely be naive or unaware of the wrongs their beloved leader is doing) to cheer them up, they end up as bad, inefficient leaders at best.
It might be argued that to be able truly lead a set of people you must have their respect as it is the only way they will trust your judgement and decisions. While I agree with this assertion, I do not agree that this respect is more important than having a sound moral judgement. If anything, there are both like colours in the rainbow, equally important for the true beauty of the rainbow to be seen. For a leader to be effective, he or she needs traits like sound moral judgement, ability to maintain respect from peers, vision, critical thinking among other things. Any assertion that tries to elevate one of this traits above the others is highly misleading.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 453, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'leaders'' or 'leader's'?
Suggestion: leaders'; leader's
...ually important. Thus, to assert that a leaders ability to maintain the respect of his ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, so, thus, well, while, as to, at least, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.5258426966 184% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 69.0 33.0505617978 209% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2764.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 585.0 442.535393258 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72478632479 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9180050066 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52854779437 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.447863247863 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 849.6 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.8652536914 60.3974514979 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.619047619 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8571428571 23.4991977007 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.09523809524 5.21951772744 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.343842122641 0.243740707755 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117589509847 0.0831039109588 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0993479695223 0.0758088955206 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.234043882444 0.150359130593 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0619367342525 0.0667264976115 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 100.480337079 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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