Our improv class just played a game that rocked my world. The exercise, which involved acting out scenes as either a ‘high’ or a ‘low’ status individual, demonstrated that authority is not based on social rank but on behaviour. A janitor can possess a CEO-like confidence and poise. A hotshot lawyer can crumble in the face of her child’s tantrum. Status is about how you carry yourself and treat others. When it comes to using the principles of Status to muscle your way to the t

WARNING: EXTREME SPOILER ALERT Maybe because it’s 2016. Or maybe because the show’s brutal mistreatment of girls and women demanded a re-think. Either way, the male-female power imbalance on Game of Thrones has been corrected. And then some. Season 6 culminates with Cersei on the Iron Throne; Daenyers and Yara setting sail to conquer The Seven Kingdoms; Arya turning down a bright future in Braavos to take her hard-won job skills on the road, and Sansa weighing which of two