abstract: The article substantiates the author's approach to studying the problem of leadership as a paradigm of management in crisis conditions of life, the purpose of which is to expand the boundaries of research possibilities for solving the problem of security in conditions of armed confrontation in central Europe.The theoretical origins, formation and development of leadership as a social phenomenon that determines the regulatory foundations of thinking and management in the context of promoting the 
journal: Visnyk of the Lviv University