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.
Does yielding to public opinion makes a leader more effective or does committing to particular principles make a leader more effective? Different factors contribute to making a leader effective. Some of such factors include good judgment, perspiracity, good and rapid decision making, yielding to public opinion in order to gratify the will of the people and simultaneously remaining committed to particular principles and objectives. Thus, though a leader must yield to public opinion, such leader must not totally neglect his principles as neglection of his principles makes him look and indecisive. On the other hand, a leader must not also be totally committed to his principle as such act turns him to a despot.
History is repleted with several leaders who were totally committed to their principles and objectives and leaders who yield to public opinion at the expense of neglecting their principles. Leaders like Genghis Khan of China, Adolf Hitler of Germany, Sanni Abacha of Nigeria and Idi Amin of Uganda all cleaved to their principles and objectives. These leaders never seek consensus from the general public as they rule base on their own judgment. These act of blind ruling turned these leaders to despot as most of their judgments tends to chafe the masses. On the other hand, leaders who totally seek consensus rather than remaining committed to particular principles are seen as weak and vulnerable leaders as it turns out that they are unable to make decisions by themselves.
Furthermore, a leader must yield to public opinion so as serve his constituent. But not at the expense of totally ignoring his principles. The society is fraught with different classes of people. We have the caste, the bourgeosie, and the plebeians. Also, we have people with different occupations. These different attributes of the society makes people have different needs. This In turn, makes the judgment of a government to favor some people at a particular time and discomfort some at the same time. When this happens, it is the leader’s principle and objective that will guide the leader on how to make things right.
True, some societies requires a leader to be totally committed to a particular objective if the leader’s objective mostly favors the society. Also, some other societies require leaders yield mostly to public opinion. But too much these act makes the leader a stark leader or turns the leader to an indecisive. Thus, both act must be utilized in order to make a leadership.
In conclusion, a leader must yield to public opinion and not abandon his principles and objectives becauses both act leads such leader in making good judgments. Yielding to public opinion turns the leader’s listening hear to the public outcry while applying some forms of principles and objectives make him take precise decisions that he deemed fit for the public. Thus, for the progress of a society, a leader must apply some form of principle and objectives when listening to the needs of the society
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 391, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...e leaders never seek consensus from the general public as they rule base on their own judgment...
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Line 7, column 296, Rule ID: DT_JJ_NO_NOUN[1]
Message: Probably a noun is missing in this part of the sentence.
...r a stark leader or turns the leader to an indecisive. Thus, both act must be utilized in ord...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, look, so, thus, while, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2523.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 493.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11764705882 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75077783825 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 215.323595506 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.409736308316 0.4932671777 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 790.2 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.4374870838 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.92 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.72 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.32 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.36628676845 0.243740707755 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124545326067 0.0831039109588 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0811370966166 0.0758088955206 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.244342112903 0.150359130593 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0708104901161 0.0667264976115 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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