Haha, while the worker's council is a nice feature in theory, it's members regularly consists of the most supreme slackers who occupy themselves with the most useless work and ventures for which nobody of the employees give a shit.

Apart from that, rumors say that Hasso Plattner strives to bring SAP back to the roots of the good old days. IMHO, he leads the company like a typical German manufacturing SME. But I'm not an expert on this. I just think that our country (Germany) seriously needs to reinvent itself and its business practices. Christian Klein has made a typical "Hauskarriere" (in-house career) which implies slavish obedience and loyalty. Bravery? Not so much.