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Daenerys Targaryen: The Mother of Dragons

53 min · 26. Mai 2026
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Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2529196/fan_mail/new] This week Andrew and Ellen enter Westeros to examine Daenerys Targaryen: liberator, revolutionary, symbol-maker, and ultimately a deeply dangerous leader. They explore her journey from vulnerable exile to Mother of Dragons, asking when moral clarity becomes absolutism, when vision turns into destiny, and why charisma without accountability can become catastrophic. Along the way, they discuss trauma, founder syndrome, symbolic leadership, emotional volatility, weak systems, poor succession, and why “breaking the wheel” is not much use if you replace it with fire. A fascinating, conflicted and occasionally scorching leadership case study. Literally. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2529196/support]

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Episode Daenerys Targaryen: The Mother of Dragons Cover

Daenerys Targaryen: The Mother of Dragons

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2529196/fan_mail/new] This week Andrew and Ellen enter Westeros to examine Daenerys Targaryen: liberator, revolutionary, symbol-maker, and ultimately a deeply dangerous leader. They explore her journey from vulnerable exile to Mother of Dragons, asking when moral clarity becomes absolutism, when vision turns into destiny, and why charisma without accountability can become catastrophic. Along the way, they discuss trauma, founder syndrome, symbolic leadership, emotional volatility, weak systems, poor succession, and why “breaking the wheel” is not much use if you replace it with fire. A fascinating, conflicted and occasionally scorching leadership case study. Literally. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2529196/support]

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Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2529196/fan_mail/new] In this episode of Leadership Multiverse, Andrew and Ellen take on Steve Rogers, better known as Captain America, and ask whether he really deserves his reputation as one of popular culture’s clearest examples of values-based leadership under pressure. The discussion explores his moral clarity, courage, calm crisis leadership and ability to build followership in moments of danger. It also asks harder questions about his rigidity, his difficulty with compromise, his loyalty to Bucky, the breakdown of the Avengers, and whether principled leadership can become destabilising when it leaves too little room for accountability, ambiguity and other people’s perspectives. Along the way, Andrew and Ellen consider the Sokovia Accords, Civil War, sacrifice, emotional intelligence, operational command, and whether Steve Rogers would survive in Starfleet, Star Wars, The Boys, Game of Thrones or DC. Spoiler: Andrew remains deeply unconvinced. A lively episode on moral leadership, wartime leadership, personal loyalty, and the difference between being worthy and being easy to work with. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2529196/support]

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Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2529196/fan_mail/new] This week, The Leadership Multiverse heads back to Starfleet to explore the leadership of Captain Christopher Pike. We look at Pike as a servant leader: calm, values-led, emotionally intelligent and deeply trusted by his crew. We discuss how he creates psychological safety, invites challenge, humanises command and carries the burden of knowing his own tragic future. We also ask where his strengths become risks. Does his empathy tip into paternalism? Does he carry too much alone? Can a leader who values consensus still move quickly when the moment demands command? Expect comparisons with Kirk, Picard, Burnham, Sisko and Janeway, plus the usual attempt to place him somewhere improbable in the wider leadership multiverse.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2529196/support]

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