Knowledge versus belief in entrepreneurship

When I started Supercomputing Systems AG (SCS) 15 years ago, I basically believed that people “function” more or less like processors do. The result was, that my company almost went bankrupt.

Today I am convinced that people are the highest value asset within a company. If people are given trust and responsibility, they find their work exciting, they enjoy it, and as a result of that the company makes good profit.

In this talk we will explore together different leadership models.
We will reflect on how employees can be empowered to bring their talents and ideas to fruition, how they can live their dreams at work, and how this relates to the flourishing of the company as a whole as well as the profit.

theoretical Workshop:

Beyond the Boundries of Knowledge

To acquire new knowledge we must abandon familiar territory. Whereas many means of orientation (such as maps or road signs) are present in well-known areas, they are no longer available in the unknown. In this process many questions arise: why do we want to leave the comfort zone of the well-known in the first place? What do we search for in the unfamiliar? How do we find our way in the unknown? And how do we communicate to the community newly acquired knowledge and take the community with us into the new fields? These questions will be discussed by means of concrete and generally comprehensible examples from the field of computer-system architecture and engineering.

An den Grenzen des Wissens

Um neues Wissen zu erarbeiten, müssen wir Bekanntes verlassen. Während im Bekannten viele Orientierungshilfen (ähnlich wie „Karten“ oder „Ortsschilder“) verfügbar sind, gibt es diese Orientierungshilfen im Neuen nicht mehr. Dabei stellen sich viele Fragen: Weshalb wollen wir überhaupt die Komfortzone des Bekannten verlassen? Was suchen wir im Neuen? Wie orientieren wir uns im Neuen? Und wie kommunizieren wir die neuen Erkenntnisse der Gemeinschaft und nehmen sie mit in das Neue? Anhand konkreter allgemein verständlicher Beispiele aus dem Gebiet der Computersystemarchitektur und der Ingenieurwissenschaft sollen diese Fragen diskutiert werden.