毛泽东

What are some qualities that make a great leader?
I feel that a leader cannot be double faced, he must be impartial
must have a macro-view, have courage, it is not really necessary for him to have immense wisdom and last of all, he must stand up to his beliefs and be perseverant to achieve his goal.
Give an example of a leader, past or present, that you admire and explain why that person deserves your (and your buddy's) admiration.
One leader that I admire a lot is a great leader of China, is Mao Zedong
(毛泽东）After 1955, when he was in his 60's, he was at the height of his political power.
Mao Zedong was 1893, into a China that appeared to be falling apart. There was spiraling social and economic unrest, and had mortgaged China's revenues and many of its natural resources to the apparently insatiable foreign powers.
His enemies were legion: militarists, who resented his journalistic barbs at their incompetence; party rivals, who found him too zealous a supporter of the united front with the Kuomintang nationalists; landlords, who hated his pro-peasant rhetoric and activism; Chiang Kai-shek, who attacked his rural strongholds with relentless tenacity; the Japanese, who tried to smash his northern base; the U.S., after the Chinese entered the Korean War; the Soviet Union, when he attack ed Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist policies. Mao was equally unsinkable in the turmoil — much of which he personally instigated — that marked the last 20 years of his rule in China.
After the communist victory over Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Mao's position was immeasurably strengthened. Despite all that the Chinese people had endured, it seems not to have been too hard for Mao to persuade them of the visionary force and practical need for the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s. In Mao's mind, the intensive marshaling of China's energies would draw manual and mental labor together into a final harmonious synthesis and throw a bridge across the chasm of China's poverty to the promised socialist paradise on the other side.
The great leader died in 1976.

In Mao Zedong I see leadership qualities, something I feel that I have not fully developed in myself and wish to improve on.