Leadership for the military Archives - Center for Leadership

Military Leadership

Leadership in the military and civilian sectors has its differences, and while at first glance it may seem that business is ahead, in reality, its biggest organizational decisions have historically been adopted from the armed forces. Today, Ukrainian military leadership combines discipline with new management ideas brought in by those who have transitioned from the […]

1000 Days of Ukrainian Leadership in the International Publication Amplify

Will we ever be able to come to terms with the damage inflicted? What will our leadership look like when peace finally comes? Will we have the strength to rebuild this country? We are approaching 1000 days of full-scale invasion, even though global analysts initially gave us only 3 days. This week, an article on […]

Command & Control Method

In one of our previous posts, we mentioned that 90% of companies are hierarchical and that most business tools have been borrowed from the military. Leadership styles are no exception, and today we will dive deeper into the one that made its way into the corporate sector first — the pointing finger style. In the […]

War of Attrition: Analytics and Forecasts

"Modern war is not only about how you fight, but also about what you fight with. And the last 150 years are not the business of the army alone, it is the business of the entire state," – Mykola Beleskov, international political scientist, chief consultant of the Department of Military and Military- Economic Policy of […]

Andriy Rozhdestvensky: Out educational work in the regions of Ukraine

Leadership During War: Insights from Andriy Rozhdestvensky Andriy Rozhdestvensky, Executive Director of the UCU Leadership Center, has traveled to cities such as Nikopol, Odesa, Dnipro, Ternopil, Lviv, and Warsaw during the war, sharing vital insights on leadership in wartime. For over six years, the UCU Leadership Center has actively studied leadership, including military leadership, and […]

Taras Chmut: Behind the scenes of Ukrainian volunteering

“You keep helping, but people still die. The ones you drank coffee with yesterday, the ones you served with. And you can’t change that. In these conditions, the team needs close and friendly communication with each other,” says Taras Chmut, head of the “Come Back Alive” Foundation, about working with the team during active combat. […]

What is common between military and civil leadership — discussion within the UCU Days

We would like to share with you the recording of the presentation of the results of the study entitled “The role of leader’s character in moderation of the negative relation between leadership context hostility and leader subjective wellbeing” carried out by the Center for Leadership of UCU. The event was held in the discussion format […]

Business and army have something to learn from each other: presentation of the results of the study and discussion on leadership

Within the UCU Days, there was held an event entitled: “Military and business leadership: things in common or what businessmen and servicemen can learn from each other.” The event consisted of two parts: presentation of the results of the study conducted by the Center for Leadership of UCU and discussion on leadership, things civil and […]

«Leader’s character matters much!» – public lecture for Kherson National Technical University students

«Has the spear ceased to be a weapon today? And if against a tank or chemical weapons? The same is true for old leadership styles: we can agree that they have the right to exist, but are they able to address present-day challenges?» – Andrew Rozhdestvensky at the public lecture for students «Why leader’s character matters […]

The Ministry of Defense Case: «The Book of Reforms» Presentation in Kherson

«The word «impossible» is forbidden. We are searching and finding ways.This is our task», – mentions Yuriy Husiev, former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Head of Kherson Regional State Administration at the presentation of the Book of Reforms in Kherson. A short while ago an open-air presentation of the collection of educational cases «Book of […]