Winners of the Drucker Challenge Essay Award 2023

Students Category

1. Abhishek Banerjee (India)
SHGs: The Underdogs enabling Indian's Economic Recovery

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

2. Justin Sucgang (Philippines)
Both Sides Now: A Druckerian Approach to Bouncing Back

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

3. Daniela Silva (Brazil)
A smooth sea never made a good sailor - Navigating Adversity with Resilience

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

Places 4th to 10th

4. Florian Boehme (DE)
About the Joy of Missing Out
5. Emmanuel Ejiofor (NG)
Recipe for Resilience: Lessons from Different Generations
6. Lotachukwu Udenta (NG)
Buying Resilience in Life's Stock Exchange
7. Tyler Whiteman (USA)
Bouncing Back: A Journey from BFA to MBA
8. Mariana Demboski (BR) *
Into a Child's World. A fantastic way of learning resilience
9. Li Jie Denise Ong (SG)
A Daughter's Take On A Real Estate Agent's Fatherly Love: An Essay About Resilience
10. Isabelle Felix (BR)
Rising as a Phoenix

*  HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE MOST CREATIVE  ESSAY

Places 11th to 16th (no ranking) in alphabetical order

Joana Paim da Luz (BR)
What puzzles should we play to develop resilience in the 21st century?
Vera Hampel (CH)
Resilience is in the Ordinary - Or: Five things a PhD student learns about resilience
Qudus Oladeji (MA)
Death
Larissa Oliveira (BR)
Everest teachings in the business world
Maria Eduarda Silva (BR)
Resilience as a Vision of Prosperity
Shivam Tiwari (SG)
The Phoenix Within: Bouncing back from Depression

Winners of the Drucker Challenge Essay Award 2023

Managers/Entrepreneurs Category

1. Bradley Andrews (USA)
Prescience in the Modern World or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Wear a Helmet

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

2. Parikshit Khanna (India)
Seeds of Revolution - Cultivating the Spirit of Resilience

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

3. Kalina Deng (USA)
Silk Magnolia

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

Places 4th to 10th

4. Rachit Bangar (AE) *
Generating Creative Resilience: From (Resourceful) Knowledge Worker to (Entrepreneurial) Augment Leader
5. Simbarashe Mandonye (ZW)
Resilience- acceptance
6. Thainan da Silva Rocha (BR)
An Austrian Remedy for Burnout
7. Precious Daluz (PH)
Back in the Classroom: An Art Teacher Consults Drucker on Restorative Educational Leadership
8. Shareefa Jewan (CA)
From Blackouts to Rainbows
9. Chinemerem Ikeogu (NG)
Lemons, lemonade, and overused cliche
10. Jazel Ann Castillo (PH)
Undocumented Voices of Bouncing Back with Peter Drucker

*  HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE MOST CREATIVE  ESSAY

Places 11th to 15th (no ranking) in alphabetical order

Nancy Dabas (IN)
Peter Drucker May Agree to This: Watch the Flower Grow, Right Through the Cracks
Alexandra Kodjabachi (UK)
How Light Enters You: The 3 As of Resilience
Nicolle Ma (US)
Elegant Adaptability and the Ancient Japanese Repair Method of Kintsugi
Thokozani Makuyana (ZW)
The Gods That Failed
Ekoja Okewu (NG)
How I Bounced Back After Several Defeats To Become A Creative Writer