Good afternoon, here is your selection of eight articles for Friday. What does it take to run one of the top-ten largest companies in the world? To oversee 380,000 human beings. To navigate through global financial crises, pandemics, literal earthquakes and tsunamis? Today’s deeply reported and wonderfully written profile of Akio Toyoda, grandson of Toyota’s founder and the company’s most powerful executive for the past 16 years, is a fascinating look at the power of power. Read the full story ➼

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