How can other institutional leaders follow suit to foster the emergence of creation spaces and collaboration curves?
Here are four broad suggestions: 1. Re-frame the institutional challenge and opportunity. Today’s institutional leaders mostly focus on attracting and developing talent inside their own institution. Shai’s insight was to look beyond company boundaries to access and develop the talent SAP needed. More broadly, leaders must redefine the reason their institutions exist, breaking down institutional walls to move from scalable push to scalable pull. 2. Identify and mobilize passionate individuals. Shai Agassi didn’t do it for the money–he’d sold the company he’d founded, TopTier Software, to SAP for $400 million in 2001. Yet he stayed with SAP for six years after that because he so passionately believed in software’s (and in particular NetWeaver’s) ability to have a huge impact on the world through productivity gains. SAP CEO Hasso Plattner recognized Shai’s passion and invested in it, even though many in the company viewed Shai–who hadn’t risen through the SAP ranks–as something of an “
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