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.

It is quite a well known statement "You need to stop living in the past and start living in the present". But just going along with this statement, it does not mean we should not undertstand the past and completely ignore it.

For a leader, in order to make a decision, whether trifle or grand, they need to access the future requirements of that decision. And that cannot be done by taking a shot in the dark. Rather, a leader needs to look into the past in order to evaluate the decision. They do require a certain degree of information in order to access, evaluate and then implement the decision. And that can be done with some concrete information, which can be gathered only from past occurings.

Not only that, a newly leader does need to evaluate their predecessor's past so that they can implement effective decisions. From a leader of a small union to the president of a company, a leader must keep in mind his predecessor's garlands and their missteps so that they do not repeat that mistake again. If not kept in mind and if those mistakes are made again, their leadership is bound to last a short-term.

And finally, in order to understand their current role of leadership, they do need to take into consideration the history accounted for that particular institution. They thoroughly need to access the history associated with the people, their past culture and behaviour in order to rectify or encourage it, whatever is suitable in that case. Just take an example of Apple. The CEO's after Steve Jobs were never able to capitalize the market from their products because they did not understand the mindset and thought process that goes behind those products. Only when Jobs came back the company did a 360, as he brought back the mindset needed to run that company.

For any leader, they do need to make effective decisions for the future of their institution. But, as the other instances states, there is a need to fully understand the past. So, the leader must think for the present and future of their institutions, but keeping in mind the past rather than disregarding it.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 16, Rule ID: A_RB_NN[1]
Message: You used an adverb ('newly') instead an adjective, or a noun ('leader') instead of another adjective.
... from past occurings. Not only that, a newly leader does need to evaluate their predecessor...
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Line 5, column 398, Rule ID: DT_JJ_NO_NOUN[1]
Message: Probably a noun is missing in this part of the sentence.
...gain, their leadership is bound to last a short-term. And finally, in order to understand...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, if, look, regarding, so, then, well

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: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1745.0 2235.4752809 78% => OK
No of words: 366.0 442.535393258 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76775956284 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66485342142 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 215.323595506 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.497267759563 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 535.5 704.065955056 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.7528306977 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.9444444444 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3333333333 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.72222222222 5.21951772744 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128193772054 0.243740707755 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0437724448118 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0316486593662 0.0758088955206 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0753008357269 0.150359130593 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0313462757228 0.0667264976115 47% => 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: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 100.480337079 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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