Fortune: The World's 50 Greatest Leaders

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In an era that feels starved for leadership, we've found men and women who will inspire you -- some famous, others little known, all of them energizing their followers and making the world better

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/leadership/2014/03/20/worlds-best-leaders.fortune/index.html

Countdown:

50. Jed Rakoff



Age: 70
U.S. District Court Judge

Breaking with tradition, Judge Rakoff rebuffed the SEC's bid to let Citigroup settle charges of securities violations without admitting wrongdoing. The case went to the heart of the financial crisis, he said, and the public deserved to know more. An appeals court still deliberates, but the bold stand, in our view, is an act of leadership.

49. Gail Kelly



Age: 57
CEO, Westpac

Her six-year tenure as CEO has brought a 70% return to WestPac (WBK) shareholders -- a remarkable feat given the challenges. Kelly engineered a huge merger with a rival bank, and then had to deal with fallout from the global financial crisis. Australia's most powerful woman in business has gotten high marks all around.

48. Lakshmi Mittal



Age: 63
CEO, ArcelorMittal

Mittal created the world's largest steelmaker (MT) by pursuing a decades-long, impossibly audacious plan of consolidation -- working with governments, powerful labor unions, and other constituencies to rewrite the rules of the old steel industry in tough times.

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1. Corporate leaders. Not necessarily leaders.

Blecch!

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2. How do you like #1?

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Hugely unsurprised by the US-centrism on display here.

"hey, here are some Americans who do relatively useless things!" College basketball coaches? "world's greatest leaders"? Seriously? And CEOs, and financiers. And people who may possibly belong on such a list if it were "America's greatest leaders" but not "world's greatest".

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4. Derek Jeter??? Worlds greatest herpes transmitter perhaps

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