Any leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shifts in popular opinion will accomplish little.
The question whether a leader who is quickly and easily influences by shifts in popular opinion will accomplish little, is essentially shaped by the definition of leadership. Therefore I will first define the term of leadership, then I will analyze in which kind of situation the behavior presented in the statement might be beneficial or not.
Leadership is about aggregating the opinions and preferences of a groups individuals and implementing these by decision making, in a manner that benefits the individuals in the long term. There are two important components that shape leadership decisions: the followers preferences and the long term consequences of decisions. We will look on both of them in detail.
As good leaders are representatives for the group, they also represent the opinion of the group or at least its majority. Therefore, being influenced by popular opinions lies in the nature of leadership, although there might be exceptions to this rule (e.g. populistic leaders, fascists etc.). This also holds for shifts in popular opinion, that might appear due to new information or changed circumstances. Therefore, the above statement does not hold, regarding the effects of popular opinion and shifts in the majority opinion.
Second a leader has to determine his decision concerning its long term effects and the long term advantages. This implies the necessity of analyzing the reasons for short term shifts in personal preferences. As humans often react emotionally on changing environmental conditions, they might tend to overreact on them. Hence popular opinions tend to high fluctuations that might not have long term consequences. This effect implies that there are situations in which leaders have to deny course changes in order to stick to the long term goals.
In the last to paragraphs I explained two effects, that have to be considered in leaders decision making. As both effects are contradicting each other, there is no predetermined effect, hence leadership behavior depends on careful analysis of both effects. Leaders need to reveal the long term and the short term components of the groups opinion in order to determine a long term strategy. The long term strategy only depends on the long term component, the short term component has to be ignored. That’s where the above statement is right. Short term changes in popular opinion need to be ignored, to ensure maximum long term benefits for the group.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, e.g., first, hence, if, look, regarding, second, so, then, therefore, as to, at least, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2063.0 2235.4752809 92% => OK
No of words: 392.0 442.535393258 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26275510204 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93577896937 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.477040816327 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 627.3 704.065955056 89% => 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: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.4476634785 60.3974514979 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.15 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.21951772744 96% => 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 : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223757366819 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0812480651583 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117350674286 0.0758088955206 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156330134938 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12967805656 0.0667264976115 194% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => 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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