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Off Leadership

Off Leadership

Auteur(s): Nathan Pali
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Off Leadership is a history podcast about what happens when leadership goes wrong.

This show explores the most disastrous leadership decisions, toxic leaders, and catastrophic failures of judgmentfrom history—moments when ego beat wisdom, power drowned out accountability, and one decision changed everything for the worse.

Each episode dives into a real historical leadership failure: bad calls, blind spots, moral compromises, and overconfidence that led to collapse, revolt, defeat, or lasting damage. These are not stories of heroes and visionaries. They’re stories of bad leadership, mismanagement, hubris, and the human cost of getting authority wrong.

If you’re interested in leadership mistakes, historical failures, organizational collapse, power psychology, decision-making under pressure, and the lessons leaders usually learn too late—this podcast is for you.

Off Leadership isn’t about how to lead. It’s about how not to.

Because sometimes the clearest leadership lessons come from watching everything fall apart.

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  • The Challenger Tragedy: What Went Wrong

    The Challenger Tragedy: What Went Wrong
    Feb 2 2026
    In this episode, we revisit the devastating Challenger space shuttle disaster of 1986, examining the critical decisions and organizational pressures that led to the catastrophe. We explore how a system rewarded confidence and forward motion over the quiet expertise of engineers, ultimately forcing reasonable decisions to drift into tragedy.          Chapters    00:00 Introduction to the Challenger Disaster    00:46 The O-Ring Dilemma    02:32 Engineers vs. Managers    05:09 The Fateful Launch    07:26 Organizational Failure
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    8 min
  • The Fall of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

    The Fall of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
    Feb 1 2026
    In this episode, we explore the gradual dismantling of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a vast European republic that succumbed not to revolution or conquest, but to internal paralysis and external manipulation. We examine how a political system valuing 'golden liberty' and the 'Liberum Veto' ultimately rendered the Commonwealth vulnerable to its neighbors.          Chapters    00:00 Introduction to the Commonwealth    00:40 Golden Liberty and Liberum Veto    03:46 External Interference and Partitions    07:06 Failed Reforms and Final Collapse
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    7 min
  • Stanislav Petrov: The Man Who Saved the World

    Stanislav Petrov: The Man Who Saved the World
    Jan 31 2026
    In this episode, we revisit the almost catastrophic night in September 1983 when the Soviet Union's nuclear early warning system indicated an incoming attack. We explore how Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, against protocol, trusted his gut feeling and prevented a global nuclear war.          Chapters    00:00 Introduction    00:29 Cold War Tensions in 1983    01:56 The Serpukhov-15 Command Center    03:22 The Alarm Sounds: Five Missiles Detected    05:39 Petrov's Moment of Doubt    10:41 The Aftermath and Petrov's Legacy
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    12 min
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