It allowed Toyoda to reshape Toyota for the new reality of the global auto market, pushing down responsibility to leaders in its various regions.

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Despite China and the US no longer taking "the old Cold War path", Global Times says Europe's new generation of leaders "lack the foresight" of Mrs Thatcher.

BBC: China media: Remembering Margaret Thatcher

The link between style and global leaders is nothing new.

CNN: Power dressing: What world leaders' clothes say about them

More than 350 leading college entrepreneurs and 150 world leaders gathered at the Kairos Global Summit in New York City earlier this year to collaborate and create innovations and business models that address key global issues, including clean water, the global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and more.

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In fact, I believe the single best way to grow the struggling global economy is to fully engage women as business leaders in new and emerging industries.

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Times have changed and leaders must now rapidly comply with the new ground rules that the global market has placed upon them.

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Some leaders have urged the meeting to begin the process of launching a new global agreement to stimulate prosperity, similar to the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944 that created the post-war system of fixed exchange rates and established the IMF and the World Bank.

BBC: Q&A: The G20 summit

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Public trust in business, government and media leaders has fallen in the wake of financial and political scandals, according to a new global survey.

NPR: Public Trust In Government, Business Leaders Falls

Mindy regularly speaks about corporate and investor sustainability issues to high-level leaders at the New York Stock Exchange, United Nations, World Economic Forum, Clinton Global Initiative, American Accounting Association, American Bar Association and more than 100 Fortune 500 firms.

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