This reminds of another conversation from a meeting in the week before with Ben Edwards, the VP of Digital Strategy at IBM, where he said that same exact phrase: the power to mobilize.

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This is where the phrase Slow down to power up came in.

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So does this mean, to use a resonant phrase gaining a good deal of global traction thanks to the power of social media, that banks such as HSBC are not only "too big to fail" but also "too big to jail"?

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The latter phrase dates to Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution that brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to power.

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That vague phrase may be sharpened by a decision last month by Switzerland to phase out nuclear power, after similar decisions in Sweden, Italy and Germany.

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