Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing and s

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Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

Leadership is a foundational quality that a system or organization depends upon. The success or failure of any organization is to a very high extent dependent upon the performance of the leader. Though, it is expected that every individual will behave differently under the same situations (so will the leaders), but it will always be wise for a leader to take teachings and learning from the past and alongside come up with his new ideas. In some sense, before taking the actions, a leader should use the past to cultivate a better future and make something new out of it. Firstly, past experiences of any place or leaders, provide the leader with a catholic view of the situation in hand with all possible outcomes of the actions that he might take. For instance, in martial situations, a newly appointed leader may examine and evaluate the strategies used by past leaders enlisting how well their strategies worked. This will help him preclude any unwanted situations and aid him with a better sense of decision making, reducing the possibility that he would fail. Hence in this way past plays an important role in outlining the position that past is useful to those in the current position of leadership. Not only this but also an important point to be noted is that past experiences guide the current leaders with a better sense of connectivity with the circumstances. For instance, a newly appointed manager in any big company can learn from the experiences of the past leaders regarding the environment of the workplace and mindset of employees. This will give him a headstart in choosing apt individuals for different tasks and will provide him with a better view of how will people working under him react when entrusted with any task. Thus experience, in this case, will help the leader form better decisions. Though we might be tempted to conclude how past always helps us creating a better future, but looking on the other side, this will not always hold. Past experiences may sometimes turn out to be intimidating for the leader and put his morale down. For instance, consider the example in the previous paragraph, the leader in charge if he realizes that all the past leaders failed even after trying their best, just because of the reasons which were out of their control, he might get worried and get intimidated before even the problem starts. Nevertheless, sometimes the leader is expected to bring in new changes which are only possible when they go out of traditional practices and come up with completely new and different ideas. In such cases pondering on past experiences will only hamper the progress of the firm, and hence past instead of being helpful would turn out to be detrimental. In the conclusion, I would state that past is an essential consideration to be taken into account by the current leaders but solely depending on past and forming a future outline based on past experiences may turn out to be misleading. Hence taking past experiences into account, they must produce new ideas to tackle problems differently.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 582, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
... make something new out of it. Firstly, past experiences of any place or leaders, provide the le...
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Line 1, column 1067, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ing the possibility that he would fail. Hence in this way past plays an important rol...
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Line 1, column 1270, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
... an important point to be noted is that past experiences guide the current leaders with a better...
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Line 1, column 1883, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to create' or 'create'.
Suggestion: to create; create
...ed to conclude how past always helps us creating a better future, but looking on the oth...
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Line 1, column 1967, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: Experiences
... other side, this will not always hold. Past experiences may sometimes turn out to be intimidati...
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Line 1, column 2578, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
...erent ideas. In such cases pondering on past experiences will only hamper the progress of the fi...
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Line 1, column 2900, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
...t and forming a future outline based on past experiences may turn out to be misleading. Hence ta...
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Line 1, column 2948, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...eriences may turn out to be misleading. Hence taking past experiences into account, t...
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Line 1, column 2961, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
...turn out to be misleading. Hence taking past experiences into account, they must produce new ide...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, look, may, nevertheless, regarding, so, thus, well, as to, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 95.0 58.6224719101 162% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2533.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 518.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88996138996 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77070365392 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73357778175 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474903474903 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 792.9 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.9203401966 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.315789474 118.986275619 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2631578947 23.4991977007 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.73684210526 5.21951772744 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.97078651685 20% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145185523588 0.243740707755 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0544998659549 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0465168536915 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145185523588 0.150359130593 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0667264976115 0% => 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: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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