Leader’s attributes (behaviors, personality traits, etc) and refer to relevant theories why the behaviors were appropriate or inappropriate in the situation faced by each leader.
Study of Mao ZeDong’s personality trait, it is always link to courage to resist, good reader, diligence, flexible thinker and also fair leader.
We can see Mao ZeDong’s personality trait which is courage to resist when the Empire of Japan invaded China in 1937, he agreed to unite with Kuo Min Tang to resist with the Empire of Japan. As a result, Mao ZeDong get win in year 1945. This characteristic can be seen through his life. Mao ZeDong resist with his primary school teacher when he was eight years old. At that time, teachers only ask students to memorize but not to explain. So he put his favorite novels such as “Three Kingdoms”, “Outlaws of the Marsh” crushed by secretly reading the novels below. Not only that, Mao Zedong courage to resist his father’s authority due to the unreasonable verbal abuse, punishment from his father. At home, his mother and he as well as his younger brother organized ‘opposition party” to refute his father. Mao Zedong brave to against his father in public. When he was thirteen years old, his father accuse him of lazy elephant in front of many guests and he answered his father rudely and go away from his home. His father compromise with him at last. Mao Zedong believed that unreasonable rule doctrine is to be brave resistance and only the courage to resist it possible to win for their right.
Besides that, Mao Zedong has a flexible thinking. At that feudalism era, he accepted and adopted Marxism-Leninism and he combine successfully Marxism-Leninism with China’s reality first historic leap in theoretical result and establish it as Maoism. When Marxism- Leninism principles guiding China as the weapon for revolution, Mao Zedong found to be Marxist-Leninist principles and the concrete practice of China’s revolution. As a result, Maoism opened up the new democratic revolution and transformation of the road.

Mao Zedong was a good reader. He read the various books regardless Chinese or Western in his adolescence. Mao Zedong learned the pulse of Western civilization through reading “Origin of Species”, “Yuan Fu” and “logic”. Those books widened the vision of Mao Zedong. Not only that, reading “Prosperous prophecy” make Mao Zedong understand “the world rise and fall of everyman’s duty”. Reading of the “Communist Manifesto”, “Social History of Civilization” make Mao Zedong become a strong Marxist and establish a lifetime goal and roads for Chinese revolution. After the Fourth Movement, Mao Zedong read a lot of books about Marxism-Leninism. He established the Marxist world was out of confusion.
The other personality of Mao Zedong is diligence. He read a lot of books on Marxism-Leninism, so that he can be continually thinking about how the Marxism-Leninism principles to the practice of the Chinese revolution. Mao Zedong carrying out investigation and study at the same time working diligently on Marxism-Leninism. As he conducted a variety of social surveys and a wide range of practical activities, Marxism-Leninism made full and well preparation to enable him to China’s revolution. Mao Zedong also found that Marxism-Leninism can apply to the country’s economic and political condition.
Mao Zedong was known as a fair leader. It is because he improved and promoted the status of women in China. He don’t be afraid that the status of man threaten by women and it make women can live wisdom. In year 1950 to 1952, Mao Zedong conduct landlord reformation and also carried out “three against” campaign which against corruption, against waste and against bureaucracy. Mao Zedong also carried out “five against” campaign which against bribery, theft of state property, tax evasion, cut corners, and the stealing of economic information.

One of the personality of Mao Zedong was prowess. He prowess in the practice of Chinese revolution, and because of his prowess, he create the new era of ancient China to create an extraordinary life achievement.
Mao Zedong also has some personality trait that all the person can be accepted. Mao Zedong was a task-oriented leader. According to his secretary, Li Rui, he said that “deaths of others meant nothing to him”. Mao Zedong’s English interpreter Sidney Rittenberg wrote in his memoir “The Man Who Stayed Behind” mention that Mao Zedong was a great leader in history but he also was a great criminal because, not that he wanted or intended to, but in fact, his wild fantasies led to deaths of tens of millions of people.