Originally Posted by ringring
I'd add the ability to lift your gaze and look at the bigger picture, an anto-zerg mentality if you like.
Sometimes in the middle of a hot battle the leader has to take time out to look at the map, to decide whether the team are in the right place or not and whether they'd be more effective elsewhere. Then do it.
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As someone who did a lot of leadership early on in PS1 I would expand this to say the balls to make hard and possibly unpopular descisions. For me, in PS1 those were the leaders that really stood out. The ones who wanted to play the meta game and didnt mind stepping on a few peoples toes to ensure success for the empire, be it recalling deadlocked continents to resecure the backline, focusing attention on the caves/battle islands to gain some long term strategic advantage etc etc.