The reason you're put in the CEO chair is because a company is facing these issues and you've been designated the person best to organize around them. I think that people are pretty energized around trying to figure this out.

Digitization has created opportunities for everybody to accumulate information in a way they were never able to, and analyze it with a speed that just wasn't there.

Everybody is talking about synergies. You've got to take out every cost you possibly can. You have to position yourself as your services change.You have to think about in five years from now what is going to happen technologically to you. And then you do have to think about M&A or your balance sheet, and you have to think about everything in the context of, "Am I prepared to meet that challenge?".

There is a lot of opportunity in all of this stuff [like healthcare business]. I don't know why everybody is focused on the negatives.

You get behind some of the numbers, like the underfunded pensions in the US, and I'm not sure people even understand how wrong their situation is.

The ability of people to reach their own news sources now, and create different views, is really unbelievable, and [populism] may be part of this.

Without going too deep, without globalization I am not sure everyone would be able to have a supercomputer in their pocket at the low cost.