The best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or other fields is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation, not competition.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
The issue of preparing the youth for leadership by instilling in them a sense of cooperation, rather than competition is not as straightforward as it may seem. While a sense of competition is a prerequisite for working harder than others, it can have detrimental effects in terms of provoking people to adopt unethical or illegal means to acheive their goal. On the other hand, a sense of cooperation has a higher probability of leading to a more harmonized work environment, where people are genuinely solicitious about each other's well-being. However, merely focusing on cooperation could lead to uncritical self-satisfaction and loss of the urge to succeed.
In my opinion, cooperation could be the best way to prepare the youth for leadership positions to a certain extent. Cooperation has a slightly more positive aura about it, than competition. The difference between a boss and a good leader is more about charisma, personality and work ethics, than about creating a competitive work environment, where everyone is trying to get ahead of others. A good leader instills his own qualities into his subordinates. Therefore, it is important to inculcate a sense of togetherness and the importance of joint efforts among the leaders, so that they can disseminate such feelings in their followers.
It could be argued that by focusing more on cooperation than competition, leaders might lose a sense of purpose. Afterall, any business entity's main concern is to survive in the market, which requires a sense of competition in order to put in more effort than others. Lack of competitive urges could lead to complacency and eventually bankruptcy. Therefore, a sense of competition, to some extent, is essential, along with a sense of cooperation. Both must work hand-in-hand in order to create efficient and effective leaders.
In order to uphold moral principles and values, leaders must realize how far their competitive urges can take them, without leading them to unethical or illegal courses of action. Competiting within the acceptable boundaries of socially and legally acceptable practices, is essential for survival and success in any field, may it be the government, industry or any other avenue. For example, Prime Ministers and Presidents need this sense of competition, in order to make their countries more efficient and effective in the global landscape. If they merely focus on cooperation with other nations, they could be easily taken advantage of by dupilicitious nations. However, excessive focus on competitiveness could provoke them and their subordinates to indulge in malfeasance.
Conclusively, preparation of future leadership of countries, industries, corporations etc., mandates the instillation of both a sense of cooperation and competition. It is an 'and' situation, rather than an 'or' situation. One without the other could have a detrimental effect on the leaders' area of authority. Thus, in order to maintain a harmonious environment, with a focus on efficiency and effectiveness, without inculcating venal and unethical characteristics, it is imperative to focus on both traits to some extent. In short, the drawbacks of one could be compensated for by the other.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'after all'?
Suggestion: After all
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'leaders'' or 'leader's'?
Suggestion: leaders'; leader's
... could have a detrimental effect on the leaders area of authority. Thus, in order to ma...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, so, still, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, in short, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 88.0 58.6224719101 150% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 12.9106741573 225% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2706.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 503.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37972166998 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73578520332 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.31935564304 2.79657885939 119% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485089463221 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 870.3 704.065955056 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7673580829 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.75 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9583333333 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203084140685 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0617787380026 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601363966394 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1214629722 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0237999550936 0.0667264976115 36% => 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: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.15 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 144.0 100.480337079 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.5 11.8971910112 139% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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