World’s 11th wealthiest person commends Israeli culture during visit
Posted on August 11, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
Category: Business Comments
When the man ranked by Forbes Magazine to be the 11th wealthiest person in the world has something to say, you most probably are going to sit quietly, listen and take notes.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison just finished his first visit to Israel. And it looks like a lot of people, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Israeli Defense Forces’ Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, took the opportunity to listen.
From the look of things, Ellison had a thing or two to listen to as well. Besides meeting with the “big guys”, he visited Sderot in Southern Israel with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (where he pledged $500,000 to the city which he said would arrive the next day), received a military briefing while standing on a hill overlooking Gaza and visited an Israeli Air Force Base in Northern Israel.
At a lecture to 1,000 people at a conference organized by Oracle, Ellison said that innovation is finding the flaws in common beliefs. He commended the Israeli culture where asking probing questions and criticizing are regular customs.
So as an Israeli I feel I must ask the following questions: Is it true that we ask lots of questions? How can we know for sure unless we do scientific research comparing ourselves to other countries? And is it true that it’s good? What are the bad sides of asking lots of questions? And is it possible we’re too critical?
I don’t know… I’m really not sure we’re a people of questions. Because really, what is a question anyway?
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