ESSAY CONTEST 2021

 

 

WHAT CRISIS DEMANDS OF THE MANAGER
 

It was the rare organization that did not find itself in a crisis this past year. Most workplaces, whether private or public sector, small or large, had to scramble as the pandemic hit in early 2020, and they still have to. The young are often left to their own devices, be it at school, university or on first career steps. New priorities asserted themselves, long-established ways of doing things proved unworkable, and in a complex and fast-shifting environment, reliable information was hard to come by. It is in such situations that a manager’s mettle is tested.
 

Your essay should share an insight – based on your experience as manager, entrepreneur or student, or on the observation of an institution you know well – about responding effectively to crisis.
 

What manager or (educational) institution did you see having positive impact? How, and in what way? As you describe their decision-making or behavior, you might also engage with other questions: Why is it hard for others to do the same in similar situations? Is it a matter of traits or training? How could managers be better developed in “normal” times to be more capable of dealing with the next trauma?
 

And finally, could this also be the moment for the younger generation – digital natives who unlike their elders have grown up with societal disruption – to step up and show the way forward? If so, tell us how the younger generation – your generation – could be better (uniquely?) equipped to move us through this crisis and its aftermath.

 

Winners of the Drucker Challenge Essay Award 2021

Students Category

1. Prabath Kuzhikkat (India)
“From the perils at sea to the predicaments at the shore – what crisis can make of managers?“

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

2. Naga Trinadh Burra (India)
“The Desi Drucker – Decoding the VUCA World in Daadi’s Way“

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

3. Dr Nadeem Ahmed (India)
“The Quadruple-P Framework – Lessons from a Crisis physician‘s tryst with business management while handling COVID-19“

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

Places 4th to 10th

4. Paul Redillas (PH)
“Dr. Drucker‘s Human Anatomy of a Manager in Crisis“
4. Karoline Baptista de Lima (BR)
“When Management Becomes a Matter of Life or Death“
6. Louise da Campo (BR)
“Patroa: lack of female leadership is a crisis that needs to be tackled“
7. Ariel de Fauconberg (GB)
“Rational – yet Compassionate: The New Era of Stewards Forged in Fire“
8. Oluwadamilola Akintewe (NG)
"Much Ado About Everything“
9. Prosper Ukiri (NG)
“The Anti-Crisis Medication for Drucker‘s Own Managers“
10. Shaila Oliveira (BR)
“The new challenges imposed on managers by the COVID-19 pandemic“

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

Evander Ãlex (BR)
"Resilience is synonymous with entrepreneurship"
Juan Pablo Benavides Cabrera (CO)
"My notes about crisis - leadership - and coffee"
Lewis Mwangi Mwaũra (KE)
"Managing for the yet-to-come: Yesterday's and today's Ancestors"
Larissa Santos Oliveira (BR)
"Chess X Management"
* Shohrukh Yormatov (RU)
"A letter from mr.Crisis and the subjective formulas for a modern crisis management manager"

* HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE MOST CREATIVE  ESSAY

Winners of the Drucker Challenge Essay Award 2021

Managers/Entrepreneurs Category

1. Manalika Borgohain (India)
"The Five Deadly Managerial Sins in Times of Crisis"

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

2. Janardhan Billa (India)
"The best way to predict the future is to create it"

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

3. Stephanie Salem (Brazil)
"The School of the Future"

 

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

Places 4th to 10th

4. Nicolle Ma (US)
"Scaling Mount Kilimanjaro Through the Fog"
5. Enrico Costanzo (IT)
"Crises bring out the quintessence of the manager"
6. Kellen York (DE)
"What Crisis Has Failed to Demand of the Manager"
7. Natalia Ricciardi (BR)
"My world is flat : What global crisis taught me about the role of Managers for Organization’s performance"
8. Abiola Oyebanjo (DE)
"The Digital Mindset and the New Social Order"
9. Diego Alves de Oliveira (BR)
"The next pandemic is already among us"
10. Okechukwu Utazi (NG)
"The management seer in crisis: managing optimism bias"
10. Nadia Amoaku (GH)
"The Aftermath of Chaos"

Places 12th to 15th (no ranking) in alphabetical order

* Igor Carnaúba (BR)
"Managers should eat more soup - the crisis cure recipe"
Yelena Novikova (KZ)
"The Recession-aide Manager: The Great Reset of MeMeMes for the Next Society"
Jeremiah Nzere (NG)
"How to glide over tsunamis and other stories"
Kate Ohbaidze (UA)
"Games Leaders Play"

* HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE MOST CREATIVE  ESSAY