A Different Business State of Mind?
Posted by Sigal Mendelson on June 27, 2009 under News, Personal stories | 
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Sherry Arison is well known for the banking and business empire she has been successfully running for many years and for philanthropic activities. Last week she gained much attention in an interview on Israel TV, which shed light on other aspects, worthy closer attention.
| The interview was given as promotion for a book Sherry Arison’s is publishing these days. The book entitled “Birth” for its nine months of writing labor reveals Arison’s unconventional perceptions. This is intriguing by itself when coming from a tough businesswoman who fought her way and has been swimming between the sharks for years.
Interview at: http://finance.walla.co.il/?w=/5651/1506723&m=1 Arison made several very meaningful statements revealing a sophisticated personality. Speaking frankly and very directly using terms of love, spiritualism, mission and values, this interview is challenging the shallow and “politically correct” in the heights of the Israeli social and financial “elite”. |
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“I want to be recognized for what I really am, not as Billionaire, she said. “I have so much more to offer: I have a warm heart, I am a philanthropist and I am a businesswoman”.
Disclosing spiritual connections to divine sources was the statement provoking most attention, though.
Arison said “It has been years that I’ve been receiving messages and connections. I see things before they happen. I received this gift not in order to buy and sell or make money but to bring the world to another place.”
Silence….
This interview does not come off the agenda in Israel. The business community and media were quick to hop into a celebration of ignorance. In a similar way that only two hundred years ago people would make a joke out of one talking about electromagnetic radiation. The other truth revealed is here is about the classy crowds of businesspeople and journalists, showing as shallow, superficial as their ignorant ancestors were hundreds of years ago. Sherry Arison is paying the price always paid by those who are aware of things which others fail to see.
This is not even about whether the specific perception presented is “true” or scientifically “correct”. The ignorant crowds do not see what is clear and evident to others. Unknown and unexplained is part of everyone’s daily life experience. For example, most people have had the experience of a brilliant idea popping out of nowhere. Very few are able to consciously make it happen and fewer if any can explain.
The refreshing news here is to have successful fortune-class businesspeople possessing more than rat-race qualifications, who can offer values and spiritual qualities. The world needs businesspeople that bring to the table broader and further-looking goals. Sherry Arison is not the only one. Some of the world’s most fortunate people were also blessed with wealth.
Many of the world’s greatest achievers did so because they saw something that others did not and went for it. What were their resources, maybe we will never know.
Isaac Mendelson
Zichron Yaakov, Israel
E-H Dictionary
| English | How pronounced | Hebrew |
| Business | Asakim |
עסקים |
| Ignorance | Baarut |
בערות |
| Idea | Raayon |
רעיון |
| Spiritual | Rukhani |
רוחני |
| Journalist | Itonai |
עיתונאי |
| Interview | Re’ayon |
ריאיון |
| Inner | Pnimi |
פנימי |
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Mary McMahon said,
I agree with your intuition, it is a gift from G-d. I had shares in the ’80’s and knew when to sell and was uncanningly correct each time. There was nothing in the natural to point to it but I knew. My daughter is involved in the business world and operates in the same way.I still operate in that dimension but not in the business world, it is the same gift operating in a different area.
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