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.
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 supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Although these characteristics, to some extent, seem to go hand in hand. Overall, sound moral judgment is a more important characteristic of an effective leader particularly if we define 'effective' as someone who is tasked with leading a group, organization, populace, etc. to create something better. Making the right decision is more important than making a decision.
Most people can make a judgment on a situation especially if it is black and white. The distinguishing characteristic of a leader is someone who is able to command and lead by making decisions in the grey. Leading by example is an effective way to get people's trust that the right decisions will be made and not only when it's easy. Trust, in turn, begets respect. An example of this is in The Zookeeper's Wife, a true story of two Polish citizens who saved the lived of hundreds of Jews by hiding them in their old zoo complex. The protagonists could live in relative safety relative to their Jewish counterparts but ultimately decide to rebel and protect their fellow humans. They start small but eventually are able to build their network and support to support over 300 lives. Their ability to do the right thing even when it was challenging and meant sacrifices within their own lives won the support of the community and enabled them to have a far bigger impact. In this situation, they had a choice. And making the right choice, exercising sound moral judgment, helped them effectively lead a group of people by winning their trust and respect.
On the other hand, it is very challenging to be an effective leader if you are unable to get the support of the people and your peers behind you. In elections, for example, it is impossible to win no matter how strong your policies and platform are if you can't win over a majority of the population which means also winning the support of your peers. However, as important as it is to have the right number of people behind you, it is far more important to have the right people behind you. You are less effective if you are catering to the masses rather than doing the right thing. And, ultimately, the masses are looking for someone who will create something new and change the status quo rather than someone who will perpetuate the existing state. Looking at the last Presidency, Barack Obama, though he was able to get the support of the people, he was also subjected to great deal of scrutiny and criticism from his peers. And, ultimately, he won by exercising sound moral judgment and standing for the right thing despite how challenging it was to do so and even though it came at the cost of losing the respect of some of his peers. He won the hearts of the right peers who in turn moved his supporters and won him the Presidency.
Ultimately, though both characteristics are important in an effective leader, sound moral judgment is far more important. It allows great leaders to build and maintain respect from the right peers and supporters which is more impactful.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 257, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...g your policies and platform are if you cant win over a majority of the population w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, so, as to, for example, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 28.8173652695 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2489.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 523.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75908221797 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67855723573 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 204.123752495 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451242829828 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 770.4 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.7898743447 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.708333333 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7916666667 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.95833333333 5.70786347227 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 22.0 8.20758483034 268% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285926933052 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.079445832349 0.0743258471296 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0822617743036 0.0701772020484 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213531914212 0.128457276422 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0853766231096 0.0628817314937 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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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.