The above is the title of the pitch at the Leipzig Elevator Pitch Night back in 2008. The speaker was covered with sweat, and the audience (200 people from business, education, politics, and English speakers all along) frowned their heads - BUT ONE.
Klaus Wurpts, back then head of Wirtschaftsinitiative Mitteldeutschland, asked the speaker for a personal conversation. "What has been your intention? What is the idea behind what you told in the elevator?"
The answer of the guy, "I have seen the impossible become possible, the new BMW Plant in Leipzig was erected in the shortest time, half the workforce, at least of the same quality as the other plants, and even faster ramping up - it was all done by the people of the region of Mitteldeutschland! So my vision is: providing the infrastructure so individuals can strive to their inner strengths, there will be an abundance of jobs, economic well-being, and joy of life."
Four and a half years later this guy still remembers the night in Leipzig where only a hint about an English workshop in one of the newsletters of the Wirtschaftsinitiative Mitteldeutschland caught his eye, he went, and he entered the competition, not knowing what would wait for him.
He only was deadly sure that if the others in the room could do it, he could do so as well, no matter what would come out. The least would be that his voice would be heard by more than one, and his dream would not be lost.
The answer of the guy, "I have seen the impossible become possible, the new BMW Plant in Leipzig was erected in the shortest time, half the workforce, at least of the same quality as the other plants, and even faster ramping up - it was all done by the people of the region of Mitteldeutschland! So my vision is: providing the infrastructure so individuals can strive to their inner strengths, there will be an abundance of jobs, economic well-being, and joy of life."
Four and a half years later this guy still remembers the night in Leipzig where only a hint about an English workshop in one of the newsletters of the Wirtschaftsinitiative Mitteldeutschland caught his eye, he went, and he entered the competition, not knowing what would wait for him.
He only was deadly sure that if the others in the room could do it, he could do so as well, no matter what would come out. The least would be that his voice would be heard by more than one, and his dream would not be lost.
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