J.P. Morgan is reported to have said, "Millionaires don't believe in astrology, but billionaires do." I tested Morgan's notion on a lawyer who has his own sterling business record. I thought I could fluster him deep in the heart of his three-piece suit. Instead, he leaned forward as if he'd discovered a fellow spy. "I understand that," he said. "Millionaires work hard, but billionaires become successful because they are willing to take a leap. They are willing to believe."
Radin confirms that businesspeople consult psychics on the quiet. "People who are in a position of having to make decisions under great uncertainty will at some point exhaust every piece of intelligence that they have. Naturally, they are all going to look for other sources of information."
In other words, you can no longer be sure who was born with a bent silver spoon in his mouth.
Harriet Rubin (Hrubin@aol.com) , a Fast Company contributing editor, is the author of The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women (Doubleday, 1997) and Soloing: Achieving Your Life's Ambition (HarperCollins, 1999) . She is also director of working diva (www.ivillage.com/workingdiva) . Contact Dean Radin by email (radin@boundaryinstitute.org) , or visit the Boundary Institute on the Web (www.boundaryinstitute.org) .
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