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 inefficient to the people he leads.
In today’s fast-paced business environment, a leader’s working efficiency is of greater and greater significance in the workplace. Some people argue that the ability to make decisions quickly is a necessity for a successful leader, while others claim that the speed of making decisions has nothing to do with a leader’s capability and working efficiency. As far as I am concerned, a leader’s success should not be determined by whether he can make decisions quickly or not. My specific reasons and examples are given below.
First of all, the quality to make decisions carefully and thoughtfully makes more sense to a successful leader. Generally, the decision made by a group leader will determine the future of the whole team, and a quick but cursory determination might cause irreversible consequences. For instance, in my junior year, my software engineering group wanted to build a social media platform. In order to meet the deadline, our group leader quickly decided the software design and wrote the preliminary proposal without consideration of our actual coding ability and budget. At the beginning, everything went alright. However, when we got down to programming, we found that we could not complete the project at all because the expectation was far above the reality. Finally, our project ended up with failure just due to our leader’s hurried and careless decision.
Secondly, a successful leader should adopt his colleagues’ opinions while making decisions thus it is impossible to determine so quickly. Nowadays, collaboration and communication mean a lot for not only employees but also leaders. Before making any important decisions, leaders will take lots of time to hold a meeting, discuss the pros and cons of the alternatives with staffs or conduct an investigation to learn about other members’ thoughts. Only the dictatorial leader who is not able to succeed will make decisions rapidly and unilaterally.
What’s more, just the reverse, taking some time for a leader to make decisions can increase the working efficiency of the whole team. As a proverb goes, grinding a chopper will not hold up the work of cutting firewood. It is because adequate preparation can avoid possible mistakes and quicken the speed in doing work. The time spent in modifying the plan is much more than that spent in making decisions. The business investment is a good case in point. Before a business person does any investment, he will fully consider of the company’s background, the investment risk and the rate of return instead of deciding to invest right away. Accordingly, it is totally worth consuming the time and energy to think twice before the final determination.
In a nutshell, it is more important for a successful leader to think repetitively before making decisions, and the speed of determination does not make much sense.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, while, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 43.0788530466 51% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.0752688172 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2441.0 1977.66487455 123% => OK
No of words: 461.0 407.700716846 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29501084599 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1412045569 2.67179642975 118% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542299349241 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 769.5 618.680645161 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.529850082 48.9658058833 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.130434783 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0434782609 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.95652173913 5.45110844103 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.33498841561 0.236089414692 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0920422813823 0.076458572812 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0882969946662 0.0737576698707 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202024669751 0.150856017488 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.043086941915 0.0645574589148 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 58.1214874552 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 10.9000537634 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 86.8835125448 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.002688172 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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