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.
