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Study of leadership character in military context (Part 1)

Talk with academic leader of the study, Chief Executive Officer of Center for Leadership of UCU and teacher of Lviv Business School of UCU – Andrew Rozhdestvensky. Within the framework of studying leadership character in military men in Ukraine, it was possible to analyze leadership model developed by the Canadian Ivey Business School and to […]

What Leadership Lessons Can Business Learn from Ukraine’s War?

War brings the kind of duress that can force even old-style militaries to change. Ukraine has faced just that situation as it continues to battle Russia in the Crimea and elsewhere. In the corporate world, businesses also can find themselves in a competitive war. CEOs could learn a thing or two from Ukrainian military commanders, […]

Why Shimon Peres’s Life Had ‘No Room for Small Dreams’

he Middle East has long been a place of political, religious and ethnic turmoil. One of the men who worked hard for most of his life to bring peace to the region was Shimon Peres, Israel’s former Prime Minister and President. He finished writing his memoir, No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the […]

Development of leadership character for efficient governance

What virtues do Ukraine’s leaders lack? What traits of character allowed Nelson Mandela uniting the country and become a national hero of the RSA? What effective governance begins with? What is the role of board of directors for the organization success? Center for Leadership of UCU together with Lviv Business School and UCU School of […]

Three thoughts on leadership by Iryna Podolyak

Whereby is leadership important at macro levels, why propaganda helps to create leaders and what should not be done with own ideas? We have outlined three messages for leaders from Iryna Podolyak, People’s Deputy, First Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Culture and Spirituality. The meeting with Ms. Iryna was arranged by UCU […]

Character, failures, and ability to let go: 6 leadership lessons by Sophia Opatska

At the meeting “Women’s Leadership: Global Challenges, Local Context”, Sophia Opatska, Founding Dean of Lviv Business School of UCU (LvBS), Vice Rector of Ukrainian Catholic University, shared the experience of working with large and small organizations, launching projects from scratch, joining teams with a long history and lessons learned from each leader. The event was […]

Commitment, “cracks” and happiness as a choice: 9 insights of a female leader

“So, what women’s leadership is?” – a friend asked me having seen my certificate from Lviv Business School of UCU. I was unable to answer this question earlier but after six full days of “Women’s Leadership. Change Management” program I started understanding the leadership model in general and the women’s one in particular, in a […]

Leadership based on character: will Ukraine manage to make it systemic? (video)

“Everyone who dives and starts a fight must learn systematically,” and “the rival can be frightened only by stubbornness, values and understanding of what you do”: what leadership in the present-day Ukraine should be, what accompanies it and what challenges it faces – participants of the frank discussion #IntroTalk at new UCU Center in Kyiv […]

Why does character matter?

When it comes to me, I much appreciate the ability to work in a circle of like-minded people for the last three years, where every conversation, discussion, training session can be began with talking about business values. And recently more and more business owners and top managers came to understanding that values are not “empty […]