Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones (Codhill Press)

This entertaining and accessible guide shows readers how to turn danger into opportunity, even when dragons threaten.

"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." - Cersei Lannister

In Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones, Bruce Craven brilliantly analyzes the intense journeys of the best and worst leaders in the epic fantasy empires of Essos and Westeros, offering the reader guidance and motivation to apply the skills necessary to fight his or her own game of thrones.

Craven considers timeless characters such as Ned Stark, Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and Tyrion Lannister as they make terrible decisions and fatal mistakes-but also achieve incredible victories and surprising successes, learning, and growing along their (often bloody) ways. Craven extracts leadership wisdom and prepares readers to compete in demanding professional environments. Readers will learn how to face conflict and build resilience, develop contextual and emotional intelligence, develop their vision, and more.

This entertaining and accessible guide will show readers how to turn danger into opportunity, even when dragons threaten.

Bruce Craven has worked for over thirty years at Columbia Business School. An Academic Director for Executive Education, Bruce teaches across the portfolio of executive programs, serves in leadership roles as Faculty Director, and teaches his popular management elective Leadership through Fiction to graduate business students. He is a published novelist, poet, and produced screenwriter. He lives with his wife and two sons in the Coachella Valley in California.