Claim In any field business politics education government those in power should step down after five years Reason The surest path to success for any enterprise is revitalization through new leadership | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Claim: In any field - business, politics, education, government - those in power should step down after five years.
Reason: The surest path to success for any enterprise is revitalization through new leadership.

"Change before you have to," says Jack Welch, the former CEO of LinkedIn. Indeed, change is the law of nature. One can choose to obstinately attempt to stick to the status quo, but the fallout of resisting change can be detrimental. Hence, I completely agree with the claim that in any field those in power should step down after a certain period of time for the reasons outlined below.
History has shown us time and again that a leader allowed to serve indefinitely can leave long-lasting footprints that become hard to erase. Such leaders become too powerful, in that they acquire so much clout that they can influence crucial system mechanisms and are able to erode the system from within. Take for instance, the recent constitutional reform that took place in Russia, which allows the President to serve two more terms. It comes as no surprise that the current President of Russia, who has been serving for the major part of two decades, has gathered enough influence in the government that this reform was voted in with minimal objection. While there is substantial evidence of election fraud, any investigation into it will undoubtedly be nipped in the bud by the party in power. This near-elective dictatorship in Russia has curtailed individual freedom, infringed upon human rights, and oppressed progressive attitudes for years. Thus, it is in the best interest of the public to compel leaders to renounce their position once their tenure is over.
Building on the same premise that too much power for too long is deleterious to the public good, it follows that when the time comes for a change in leadership, there may be social and political upheaval. For this reason, many have advised against a change in the political climate of North Korea, for example. The obvious reason is that the dictatorship has been in place for so long that there is no democratic system ready to replace it and no individual or group prepared to take charge. This uncertainty may leave the country vulnerable to economic and military insecurity, and exacerbate the situation. Contrast this with a democracy where frequent elections take place after five years, such as India. Surely, there is uncertainty when the elections occur - the stock market becomes volatile, for example. But normalcy resumes almost immediately once the results are declared. Evidently, it is better to have frequent changes in political leadership at predetermined times than to leave it to whenever it may happen.
Lastly, the success of any enterprise is the result of the right ideas applied at the right time by the right people. When seniority steps down to give a chance to the youth, new ideas abound. For example, when Satya Nadella became the CEO of Microsoft about a decade ago, Microsoft was struggling. Times had changed, but Microsoft had yet to catch up. It was still trying to apply the same old strategies to a disrupted industry. While the Nokia phones were the pioneers of their time, smartphones were ahead of them by leaps and bounds. Nadella essentially reinvented the company and put it in direct competition with the leaders of the smartphone market - first with the Windows Phone and then with the newer Nokias. Compare this with BlackBerry, who failed to keep up with the flow. Had BlackBerry reorganized themselves so as to give a voice to their younger workforce, maybe they would not have fallen into obsolescence.
The question remains, although, about what should be the tenure for which a leader may serve. In politics and government, where change is crucial and influence grows with time, a 4- or 5-year term limit seems reasonable. However, in business, education, or other innovative fields, a strict term limit may not be judicious. Change should occur in these enterprises when a need for it is felt, by measuring the competition, the market trends, and the relative progress that the enterprise has been making in recent time. The serving period of leaders can be as long as multiple decades (as was in the case of the burgeoning Microsoft when Bill Gates was the front-man), or as little as a year if the leader fails to deliver on performance.
To conclude, it is easy to see that enabling any enterprise to be led by different people over time is beneficial for the enterprise itself and for the people it affects. Whether that change should be made mandatory after a fixed time period or if it should be flexibly arranged depends on the nature of the enterprise and the sort of influence it has on the people affected by it.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, lastly, may, so, still, then, thus, while, as to, for example, for instance, sort of, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 27.0 11.3162921348 239% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 109.0 58.6224719101 186% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3783.0 2235.4752809 169% => OK
No of words: 768.0 442.535393258 174% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92578125 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.26429605181 4.55969084622 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70402615803 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 378.0 215.323595506 176% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.4921875 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 1196.1 704.065955056 170% => 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: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.2370786517 168% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.1329483269 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.264705882 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5882352941 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.67647058824 5.21951772744 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201537370045 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.045886630867 0.0831039109588 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.065834710485 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107744376399 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432429600793 0.0667264976115 65% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 194.0 100.480337079 193% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, lastly, may, so, still, then, thus, while, as to, for example, for instance, sort of, such as

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