Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: one quality that a successful leader must have is to make decisions quickly. When a leader takes too much time to make decisions, he will be seen as ineffective to the people he leads. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer
We have to make decisions every day. And most of them are quick decisions, whether it is as small as placing a coffee order or as big as deciding which apartment to hire. The leaders, too, are forced to make decisions now and then. Some people even assert that the quick decision making of leaders is one of the characteristics of a great leader. I fully agree with this idea for a few reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
Firstly, quick decisions are indispensable parts of a successful business. Modern business leader have to make numerous decisions every day such as whether to reply a Email or not, recruit a applicant or not, etc. A fast decision-maker can really enhance the efficiency of the whole team, while ponderous leaders always have sluggish teams. For example, one of my former team leader are very efficient. We were working in a telecommunication company and we design equipment for internet service providers. One day before a major holiday, a Mexican customer submitted a bug report. My leader had two choices: to deal with it immediately or deal with after the holiday. He did some research on the problem and decided to ask two members of our group to solve it immediately. The decision turned out to be perfect. If we hadn’t solved the problem that day, it would have been a major problem in the coming days.
Secondly, leaders who can make decisions quickly can stimulate other team members. Leaders are always role models of teams. Their ways of dealing with works are revered and copied by the whole team. A recent research done by a group of psychologists has proved that this is true. The researchers studied 10 teams that just changed leaders in different business sectors of a big company and their efficiency before the leader change. After 6 months of study, they found that team members under a faster decision-making leader worked more efficiently than before while those who have a slower leader dropped their efficiency. The researcher studied the reasons behind this change and concluded that team members are more invigorated under the leadership of fast decision-makers.
Thirdly, they are likely to have more expertise in their working field. If a leader can make decisions quickly, then they tend to have more experience in their works. In contrast, sluggish leaders are always newbies or the ones who don’t devote much to their works. There is another example of my former leader. Before he assumed that position, he has been in that team for five years and he knew every details of our products. After he quit his job, we really had a bad time. The new leader was not conversant enough with our products and he was indecisive not because of his personality but his unfamiliar with his work. That was a disaster and our efficiency dropped tremendously.
In conclusion, fast decision-making is one of the most precious qualities of a great leader. These leaders are devoted to their works, serve as role models and are indispensable parts of a successful business. Actually, it has always been a mystery to me why there are many people who have an opposite idea.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, if, really, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, while, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 43.0788530466 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2609.0 1977.66487455 132% => OK
No of words: 535.0 407.700716846 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87663551402 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80937282943 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77890309016 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 259.0 212.727598566 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484112149533 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 827.1 618.680645161 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.6003584229 160% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.567710194 48.9658058833 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.0606060606 100.406767564 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2121212121 20.6045352989 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.30303030303 5.45110844103 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.320187873902 0.236089414692 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0831914404329 0.076458572812 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0585868673708 0.0737576698707 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198307656974 0.150856017488 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0424948240866 0.0645574589148 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 11.7677419355 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 86.8835125448 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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