Visiting the Garr Raynold's blog I got news of Shai Agassi who was the CEO (not exactly but almost the same... he was very close to the top indeed) of my software company SAP. Shai, since his SAP resignation, has founded Better Place, a company that is focused on one of this century's biggest challenges - building a scalable and sustainable personal transportation system that ends oil dependence now leading- Obviously Shai is still the great motivational speaker we all knew. His 18 minutes lecture at TED is awesome. Like Garr, I specialled appreciated the moment when Shai quoted the JFK President's early 1961 speech about space conquest. " put a man on the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade" . This sentence reminded me nevertheless some materials I have already read in PresentationZEN and Made to Stick books ! Why this JFK message is still so memorable and worth it after almost 50 years ?Because this message shares a vision that is big, simple, concrete but also a vision without any abstractions and boring technical details. And it is the reason why this message can motivate people towards goals and change the world.
Shai is amazing and my company miss him and his software entrepreneur and creative mind . (although I fully support his goal to make our world a better oil freedom place) We don't forget that ,thanks to the technological platform he drove, he helped us as a company to be less self-centered on our own ERP product and more open to the others environmental software. I don't forget either his SAP speech a few years ago when he was dressed in Superman ! ( Nice limbic effect !)
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