1st symposium: Denkwerkstatt
The first symposium of the Denkwerkstatt für Manager took place in September 2011. Topic: the vision Denkwerkstatt becomes reality!
"One has infected us", this fragment with probably originally rather religious roots, also applies to this interdisciplinary meeting of exciting personalities. "Philip Kratzenberg, Bardusch GmbH.
"New questions require new answers - it's the lateral thinkers and uncomfortable zeitgeists that move the world forward. I can confirm: A wide variety of lateral thinkers were at work at this symposium!"
Dr. Gerhard Weissmüller, Technical Works Ludwigshafen
"Thinking - a cultural asset! Who thinks something up? How "far" and "deep" is thinking? Do we abolish thinking through specifications? Are there prohibitions of thinking by rules versus competence? In a good atmosphere, the lecturers and participants were able to develop their thoughts about these questions abstractly and then concretely - this is how thinking and thus this event becomes a piece of culture."
Michael Kogler, AOK Baden-Württemberg
"For the trial on Sept. 17, Kleist's famous words about the "gradual emergence of thoughts while speaking" apply."
Dr. Gerhard Mersmann, City of Mannheim
"Whoever does not want to bear the yoke of the present must intoxicate himself, whether with wine, virtue or poetry." So says Charles Baudelaire in his poem "Envirez-Vous" (Intoxicate yourselves). At the first Denkwerkstatt at Geschwill & Nieswandt there was wine, virtuous thinking and many a poetic contribution. On to the next intoxicating get-together..."
Rainer Kern, Enjoy Jazz - Mannheim
"New ideas often arise from the transfer of concepts. An exchange like in the Denkwerkstatt, across different borders, gives important impulses."
Dr. Peter Kurz, Lord Mayor of the City of Mannheim