# How to Survive Game of Thrones

> Conflict, politics and power plays look alike from the outside and need different answers. Written with Nadine Broghammer, in progress on Leanpub.

- Date: 2026-09-19
- Source: https://romanoroth.com/en/books/how-to-survive-game-of-thrones/
- Tags: Leadership, Conflict, Organizational Design, Collaboration


Written with Nadine Broghammer.

Next to the org chart every organization runs a second structure: who has influence, who owes whom, which disagreement is about the work and which one is about position. Most people learn to read it the slow way, by losing a few rounds first.

The book teaches you to tell three things apart that usually get lumped together: conflict, politics and power plays. From the outside they look alike, and each one needs a different answer. It carries seven plays for handling a disagreement, and exercises you run with an AI assistant on your own case before you walk back into the room.

One sentence carries the rest: most fights you can win are not yours.

In progress on Leanpub. Follow it there and the chapters arrive as they are written.