Which lines in "The Eagle" by Lord Tennyson depict the eagle's leadership qualities?

The speaker says that the eagle "clasps the crag with crooked hands" (line 1).  The word clasps indicates how tightly the eagle clings to his leadership position; he seems tenacious, even dictatorial perhaps, as a result of this word choice.  The word "stands" also seems to connote a certain strength on the eagle's part, that he is a leader because he possesses such strength (3).  Further, to say that the "wrinkled sea beneath him crawls" shows just how powerless everything else is in comparison to the eagle (4).  Crawling is an action performed by something or someone who is subservient or weak; the eagle, then, is so powerful that everything beneath him seems powerless.  It also makes the eagle sound merciless, perhaps even cruel, because he makes everything else crawl below him.  Finally, the line, "He watches from his mountain walls," tells us about his stronghold, where his power is consolidated.  Again, he is so much higher (literally and figuratively) than anyone else (5).  And when he dives, he is "like a thunderbolt," a simile which absolutely emphasizes how destructive he can be as a leader (6).

Does "The Eagle" by Lord Tennyson reflect good leadership characteristics?

This poem has never struck me as addressing the qualities of a good leader; rather, it seems to outline the qualities of a rather bad leader, one who is more concerned with retaining his power and authority than caring for and helping to raise his people up.  The fact that the eagle is "Close to the sun in lonely lands," seems to show that he, alone (or the supreme leader he represents), has power and authority, and it seems to be his prerogative to keep it this way.  He is "lonely" because he has isolated himself from his subjects who, if represented by the sea that "crawls" beneath him, are completely powerless while he retains all authority over them.  Generally, a good ruler wants to know his subjects in order to learn how best to serve them, but this is not a leader who is interested in serving anyone or anything but himself.  

In watching from his "mountain walls," we see just how much power he has versus how low his subjects are: again, depriving one's subjects of basic freedoms or dignity does not generally make for a respected and beloved leader.  Finally, if he does need to come down from his mountain walls for any reason, he does so like a "thunderbolt," violently and destructively.  I certainly wouldn't want to be ruled by a leader who cares so little about me, who keeps me purposely without power or control over my own life, or who would punish me severely without understanding my position in some matter.