Winning power in Westeros is hard but holding power is much harder. The book analyzes
strategies of leadership in the popular television series as an inspiration for today's
uncertain times and our corporate world bringing together research on TV series with
management studies. The medieval fantasy world presents emotional and larger-than-life
leadership archetypes: charismatic authentic privileged masculine female motherly lonely
romantic and disabled leaders. They are constructed and deconstructed. Hands penises and
heads are chopped off. In this way the series also celebrates the power of those who follow or
resist and always influence their leaders. Dr. Brigitte Biehl (Biehl-Missal) is Professor for
Media and Communication Management at the SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences School of
Popular Arts in Berlin acting as Head of Studies B.A. Creative Industries Management M.A.
International Management Focus on Creative Leadership and director of the Institute for
Professional Development (IWK). Her background is in theater film and media studies and
business studies she has published widely on art aesthetics and management. This book is a
translation of the original German 1st edition Leadership in Game of Throne by Brigitte Biehl
published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH part of Springer Nature in 2020. The
translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the
service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content so that
the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature
works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the
related technologies to support the authors.
