Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
A leader both leads and serves. It is understandable that some people believe that in order to be effective, leaders need to yield to public opinions, to the degree of compromising their own principles. However, I strongly believe that a truly great leader is one that consistently adheres to certain principles and committed to particular objectives, for three reasons.
First, a leader is the one that provides the vision, the one that galvanizes followers towards that vision. People expect the leader to set the goal, paint the vision, and show them the way to realize it. With the goal-setting and vision-painting it is natural and necessary to bring his or her own principles and beliefs - natural because genuine visions are rooted emotionally in one's soul, and necessary because commitment comes from alignment with one's deepest beliefs. Thus it is both expected and preferred for a leader to adhere to certain principles and beliefs.
Secondly, leaders that are committed to certain principles are more likely to be trusted by his people. Their actions are stemmed from a consistent set of credos and hence predictable. People tend to trust the predictable. When these leaders are put through trying experience, people know that they would not fail morally and they will not.
Last, but not least, public opinions may not be so "democratic" as it sounds. The so-called "public opinions" are often the voice of the loudest, or the wealthiest, the ones with the resources to lobby or vocalize their stand. The opinions of the marginal, the minority, the disadvantaged are often lost in the sea of "public opinions." It is only with a deep commitment to certain principles that one can truly discern among the public opinions, hear the un-heard, see the unseen. A truly great leader should do no less than that.
With all the above, I'd like to add that it is not contradictory to be both adherent to certain principles and open to hear other opinions. It is after all opinions are heard, a leader should still make the decisions based on his own principles that he had committed to.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...nuine visions are rooted emotionally in ones soul, and necessary because commitment ...
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Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'ones the deepest'.
Suggestion: ones the deepest
...se commitment comes from alignment with ones deepest beliefs. Thus it is both expected and p...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...om alignment with ones deepest beliefs. Thus it is both expected and preferred for a...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I'd
...o less than that. With all the above, Id like to add that it is not contradictor...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, may, second, secondly, so, still, thus, after all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1775.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 351.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05698005698 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03341917785 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.512820512821 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 544.5 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.6094136211 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.411764706 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6470588235 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.52941176471 5.70786347227 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251065319568 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0896167544578 0.0743258471296 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0698591111133 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154790631567 0.128457276422 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102962556985 0.0628817314937 164% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 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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