the quebec tidjane thiam 82, fresh out of west point, a platoon, 22 young men dependent upon you, andrankly you were putting them sometimes in harm's way. how are you a different leader today than you were at 22? alex: hopefully i have grown and matured a lot. what i would say is starting in , the military, you have so much to learn, much like you do as a ceo. a lesson i learned is you have to earn the right to lead and to be in command. while you may have a rank on your sleeve, that does not immediately bestow upon you the respect and credibility of your soldiers. so going in very early on in my career, being able to listen to noncommissioned officers, being able to be trained by them in many ways is very similar to what i had to do at johnson & johnson. when i was at the academy, army, it was about country, duty, honor, being there for a higher calling into trying to protect our country. being able to work for johnson & johnson with the credo with such an explicit commitment, a 75-year commitment around patients, consumers, employees, communities and shareholders, there was a lot of