The best leaders are those who encourage feedback from the people whom they lead

Possessing effective leadership skills has always been considered a very important personality trait for someone who is inclined to make a change by influencing people. With the increment in number of economic, politcal, social, religious and other organisations around us, need for more and more leaders has arrived. Although anyone can be "so to say" a leader, however, only few can be effective leaders. Only few can inspire and motivate the crowd to achieved the desired outcome. One has to investigate what distinguishes effective leaders from ineffective ones to support or refute the given claim.

There are some obvious traits of effective leaders, such as assertiveness, decisiveness, organised and structured approach. Other qualities of effective leaders can differ in different situations. For example, Mahatama Gandhi was a leader full of compassion. His drive for leadership came from the pain that he felt towards the victims of colonialism. On the other hand, Hitler was a leader far from compassion. He did not care too much about about people's emotions and was ruthless in his orders. One might think that getting a feedback might be possible in the former scenario where the leader is actually concerned with people's needs and desires, however, it is highly unlikely in the latter as some leaders tend to have first and final say in decisions.

Now, to evaluate the above scenarios objectively, a leader is in direct contact with the people he leads and in minimal contact with the people or things which are the end result of the movement the leader is leading. The people who leads are actually in direct contact with the means to achieve the final outcome. Thus, these people act as intermediaries between the leader and result(s) he is trying to achieve, in which case getting a feedback from these people becomes not just helpful but absolutely mandatory to result in an effective leadership. For example, a school principal who leads the school teachers might instruct them to keep classes for longer stretches of time. However, if the students are unable to keep their attention for such long time spans, his plan might be ineffective of enabling the students grasp more, in which case it is the teachers who's feedback matters.

A leader might make decisions unaware of the ground realities, in which case his orders even though effective might not produce desired results. However, having said that, a leader has to be cautious of the fact that it's a human organisation that he is dealing with and as such the information that reaches him could be personally biased or interpreted. Thus, he or she must use his judgement to make decisions that are aligned with the goals of the group or organisation.

Overall, I would agree that the best leaders are those who encourage feedback from people whom they lead, however, they have to amalgamate this feedback along with their own judgment and assertion to produce effective results.

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Average: 8.5 (5 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'thus', 'as to', 'for example', 'such as', 'on the other hand']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.220994475138 0.240241500013 92% => OK
Verbs: 0.171270718232 0.157235817809 109% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0957642725599 0.0880659088768 109% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0478821362799 0.0497285424764 96% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0423572744015 0.0444667217837 95% => OK
Prepositions: 0.1197053407 0.12292977631 97% => OK
Participles: 0.036832412523 0.0406280797675 91% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.72657746466 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0294659300184 0.030933414821 95% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0902394106814 0.0997080785238 91% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.02394106814 0.0249443105267 96% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.02394106814 0.0148568991511 161% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2971.0 2732.02544248 109% => OK
No of words: 488.0 452.878318584 108% => OK
Chars per words: 6.0881147541 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.58838876751 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.385245901639 0.366273622748 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.293032786885 0.280924506359 104% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.217213114754 0.200843997647 108% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.120901639344 0.132149295362 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72657746466 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 219.290929204 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512295081967 0.48968727796 105% => OK
Word variations: 60.3342298685 55.4138127331 109% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6194690265 102% => OK
Sentence length: 23.2380952381 23.380412469 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.1621390751 59.4972553346 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.476190476 141.124799967 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2380952381 23.380412469 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.52380952381 0.674092028746 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 52.5413739266 51.4728631049 102% => OK
Elegance: 1.44366197183 1.64882698954 88% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.378292003601 0.391690518653 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.132107568028 0.123202303941 107% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.112960132237 0.077325440228 146% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.512500137709 0.547984918172 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.173991233789 0.149214159877 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1323042396 0.161403998019 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114266909334 0.0892212321368 128% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.324987020159 0.385218514788 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0975689637365 0.0692045440612 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260075178495 0.275328986314 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.137676109017 0.0653680567796 211% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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