Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
A good leader should spend more time listening to other people’s ideas than taking his or her own ideas.
Nowadays, teamwork and being a part of a group is an essential part of every individual’s life and the fact that being in groups, things go better and faster is obvious to everyone. However, the role of a group leader cannot be undertaken at all. Actually, most of the people think that a group leader should listen to other’s opinions more than taking his or her own ideas. But, I somehow disagree with the statement for some specific reasons which will be covered in the following paragraphs.
First of all, a group leader is usually a person who is decisive, confident, and able to manipulate multiple tasks simultaneously. Well, according to this definition, when we set a person as a group leader, we have accepted that they have the potential to manage all the things properly. Consequently, when a group leader makes a decision, all the group members should trust the act and do their best to achieve the group goals.
Secondly, I believe that a leader must be a good listener and accept better ideas. So, this is true that a leader should spend more time listening to other people’s ideas, but this must not conflict with the idea that they are the ones that must decide. Precisely speaking, this means that a great leader must listen to members’ ideas, get the best ones, gather all the things, and improve the actual ones followed by the group member. This way, they not only respect other members’ ideas but also reach to better results since two brains, definitely work better than a single brain.
Finally, yet importantly, listening to all people’s ideas and not having a single one to follow results in anomalies. To illustrate, imagine that you are a part of a travel group and you all want to reach the peak of a mountain on your trip. Actually, here, you must take a path to follow and reach the destination and the leader is the one that must choose the best path. But, if he or she doesn’t have any ideas at all and just listens to others’ opinions at each level, the group may face too many difficulties and dangers during the trip.
To sum it up, I myself think that a good leader is a person who observes a balance between listening to others’ opinions and taking their own ideas. Because this avoids failures and anomalies, and instead, builds trust, success, and helps to achieve the aims in a shorter period of time. So, apart from being a good listener, a leader must be a master-mind and lead people to success by being decisive, confident, and open-minded.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 331, Rule ID: THE_NN_AND_THE_NN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'are'?
Suggestion: are
...nd reach the destination and the leader is the one that must choose the best path....
^^
Line 5, column 273, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... helps to achieve the aims in a shorter period of time. So, apart from being a good listener, ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, consequently, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, well, apart from, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 13.8261648746 174% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2069.0 1977.66487455 105% => OK
No of words: 441.0 407.700716846 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69160997732 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57392489019 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498866213152 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 624.6 618.680645161 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.5575756908 48.9658058833 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.944444444 100.406767564 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 20.6045352989 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.72222222222 5.45110844103 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.322456983667 0.236089414692 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103139901725 0.076458572812 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0925318072013 0.0737576698707 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168942549155 0.150856017488 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0647976047886 0.0645574589148 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.22 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 86.8835125448 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 331, Rule ID: THE_NN_AND_THE_NN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'are'?
Suggestion: are
...nd reach the destination and the leader is the one that must choose the best path....
^^
Line 5, column 273, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... helps to achieve the aims in a shorter period of time. So, apart from being a good listener, ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, consequently, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, well, apart from, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 13.8261648746 174% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2069.0 1977.66487455 105% => OK
No of words: 441.0 407.700716846 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69160997732 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57392489019 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498866213152 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 624.6 618.680645161 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.5575756908 48.9658058833 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.944444444 100.406767564 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 20.6045352989 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.72222222222 5.45110844103 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.322456983667 0.236089414692 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103139901725 0.076458572812 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0925318072013 0.0737576698707 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168942549155 0.150856017488 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0647976047886 0.0645574589148 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.22 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 86.8835125448 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.