The Peter Drucker Challenge -The value of the “Renaissance Manager”

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Nonprofit organization

Peter Drucker Challenge

Area

Western Europe

Host Country

Austria

Deadline

24 Jun 2019

Study level

Undergraduate

Opportunity type

Competitions , Awards , Grants

Specialities

Creative Arts and Design , Journalism , literature

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

This opportunity is destined for all countries

Eligible Region

All Regions

Since the late Middle Ages, the notion of the “Renaissance Man” has celebrated those people who are well-rounded, broadly knowledgeable and capable across the arts and the sciences, and able to approach problems holistically. This year marks the five hundredth year since the passing of the world’s most famous Renaissance Man: Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian polymath who simultaneously excelled as scientist, engineer, writer, artist, and musician.

Today, highly educated people tend more toward specialization, but in settings that still encourage cross-disciplinary thinking, people are more likely to …

The renowned twentieth-century thinker Peter Drucker offers a modern exemplar of a Renaissance Man in the field of management—itself a multidisciplinary subject. In an age when the work of running organizations was typically approached as an engineering and optimization challenge, he described management as a “liberal art.” Its best practitioners, he insisted, have always drawn on the wisdom, self-knowledge, and enlightened understanding that comes with a liberal education and continually refined their “art” through practice and application.*

Drucker lived long after da Vinci, yet shared some of the Renaissance master’s fundamental traits. Both were unusual in their intellect and talents; each was driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world around him; neither conformed to the mainstream mindset. Like da Vinci, Drucker was born in a period of great social change, when the need for continuity (and reverence of tradition) was challenged by the need for innovation (and radical thinking). Both adopted a whole-systems perspective as they looked for connections and patterns.** For leaders, organizations, governments, and individuals today, both offer inspiring examples of the power of breaking rigid thinking patterns.

General requirements

Essay category requirements
You can submit one essay to participate as either a student or a professional

Student category

Professional category

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A cash prize of EUR 1,000 (to be given at awards ceremony)

Second and Third Prize Winners

Finalists Ranked Places 4 to 10

Places 11 to 20

If you qualified for the Second Round of judging without being selected as one of the 10 finalists, you will receive free participation and waived registration fee (regular fee +/- € 2,000) for the 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum to be held in Vienna on November 21-22, 2019 at the Imperial Palace (Hofburg), including conference bag and brochure, buffet lunches, and coffee breaks at the conference venue

You must make your own arrangements for travel and accommodation in order to attending the Forum. No cash refund.

In any case, you will be eligible for the opportunity to win the Special Recognition Award for the most original essay (reimbursement based on our travel process & policy)

In order to apply, you must fill in the application form.

For more information please visit the official website.

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