Any company faces BIG challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going AHEAD on the existing track. EVEN when they know there are problems, the first reaction is to protect the old WAY.

I was just ALWAYS the girl that PEOPLE would COME and talk to about their problems, and I STILL am.

Problems and ISSUES will ALWAYS be there, and they'll never leave our side, so the OBJECT is to have a GOOD time and MAKE fun out of whatever we do.

I sincerely BELIEVE that no PROBLEM is bigger than man, and PROBLEMS are blown out of PROPORTION by man himself.

It was very difficult when I was young because there are PROBLEMS with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life. I had FRIENDS that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They CHOSE the BAD way.

After DECADES spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I WORK best ALONE. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to NAP. That's a big one, the napping on DEMAND!

I don't hate TECHNOLOGY, I don't hate HACKERS, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we NEED to solve, especially security.

As a civil servant in charge of the government's STRATEGY Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to WORK in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM CROPS to alcohol, NUCLEAR proliferation to schools REFORM.

The PROBLEMS come when your personal life and RELATIONSHIPS come under SCRUTINY in the PRESS and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.