In the New Asian Economy, both profits and fears are on the rise as markets open up, customers trade up and competitors toughen up.

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An open and continuous dialogue on how women execs rise to these roles is where the real breakthrough and changes will begin to really shift the perceptions in the executive-level landscape.

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Many come toting their own surfboards and rise early to hang 10 on the open, near-deserted beaches.

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They rise in mechanical wonder and then stop, abruptly, on eleven, where the elevator doors slide open to no one.

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Federer has now won five Wimbledon titles, five US Opens, three Australian Opens and one French Open, a triumph that will go some way to silencing those who claimed his career was on the slide amid the rise of world number one Rafael Nadal.

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