【09年2月-3月GRE作文冲刺组】issue70

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Issue70: In any profession—business, politics, education, government—those in power should step down after five years. The surest path to success for any enterprise is revitalization through new leadership.

The speaker asserts that revitalization through new leadership is the most important way to success for any enterprise, and those leaders in any profession should step down after five years. The speaker unfairly assumes this system should be applied in any profession, in my view, it is not the same in general, although I concede that it is very necessary in some areas and can bring positive effects to the company.

The competition today is more and more fierce, it can be observed in any field. For instance, in the field of education, people can sense that the trend of digital teaching is close to us, traditional teaching would be no longer suitable for students, every faculty and students should master the basic operation of computer. In this case, a school leader plays a key role in the process of revitalization. If a leader is not familiar with those new technologies at all and insist in the traditional teaching, the education efficiency is destiny to leave behind, and students would have difficult in keep up with society. In such situation, the leader should step down after less than five years. To the contrary, if a leader indeed has good performance in the past five years, he should be qualified to be an elector.

When it comes to the business field, however, it might not be so necessary to limit the term of leadership. In some big companies, the achievement of revitalization usually can’t be seen in five years, according to my observation, it always takes effects in at least one decade. Take the biggest package deliver company in the world UPS for example, they established an scenario planning for one hundred year, in the other word, its achievement could only be seen in one hundred years.
In addition, in private areas, other people don’t have right to limit the term of leadership, because the employer himself opens the company.

Admittedly, the speaker’s assertion has two positive points: First, a new leadership usually has greater initiative and would bring in new ideas to the company. Second, if a leader knows he will step down after five years, he won’t tend to abuse his power and instead he will make efforts in order to be reelected. These two points are both good for the development of their companies.

In conclusion, it is true that revitalization and the step down system have positive points. But they are not consistently effective in all fields. In the field of education, it is necessary to use this system, and in the business area, it might not be necessary to limit the term of leadership.