Having been a Game of Throne addict for past however many years, I couldn’t resist using some of the concepts from leadership theory that I’ve been working on to write a short blog..

Warning: this contains spoilers for Game of Thrones, series eight.

Alongside many other aspects of the final series of Game of Thrones, the “hand-break turn” performed by Daenerys Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons, received heavy criticism. As the defending armies of Kings Landing surrendered in the penultimate episode, there was a pregnant pause while she pondered whether to accept peace, or raze the city. She decided to burn down Kings Landing and kill thousands of innocent people….

Read it all here.

Normal business of writing about real leaders and election admin/management will shortly resume…