It's pretty obvious what traits a cox must adopt and tries to learn to do a good job in this most unique position in the athletic world. I'll pass on the leadership stuff, napoleon complex garbage, and point out a secondary characteristic or two that coxes unintentionally inherit after riding in the box for a while. They can't drive a car anymore. They take 10 miles to change a lane, oversteer, can't find the brakes, and yell to the car a lot. This has nothing to do with the coxes' former driving ability.
Coxes also begin to squint a lot, no loss in vision, they just squint.
I hope you guys could follow me ok'. Don't expect to finish a game of Monopoly, Risk, or Golf with a stroke. The seven seat is the Bitch Niche. The longer one rows at seven, the more sophisticated and complex the bitching becomes, changing from a crude verbal rowing suggestion to the six man in the early stages to long winded level-voiced reasoned treatises after every piece explaining why the crew is slower now than last week. I was a team captain, looked up to leader of my college crew, kept my mouth shut and did my job.