To the author (if self posted). The distraction of the green menu pullout icon made me unable to read the text on my iPhone. I gave up after realizing the unpleasantness caused by the distraction.
Normally the Safari "Reader" button would light up in the URL bar and I'd use that to read the article without distraction, but it didn't for some reason (content not properly marked up in the HTML?).
Because of your post, Mr. OP, I shall check out Game of Thrones. I have always been fascinated by how stories can teach us so many things if we look beneath the words. For one, I would highly recommend "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", a Chinese literature piece that tells the stories of various leaders and their strategies on leading armies to victories. NOTE: I am not in favour of war but merely the way that they are able to raise the morale of people towards a cause - something that would be helpful to all businesses.
I would strongly suggest you read the novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire, instead of watching the TV show. Hours and hours of worth of detail had to be cut from the series to convert it for TV, and while they did a great job, you're left with little more than a highlights reel by comparison.
The novels are a must if you're after the detailed history and politics of the world the characters live in.
I debated with myself whether I should read the books first, but:
On the other hand, I have read that some bookreaders recommend to first watching the TV series as while it does "dumb down" a couple of things, it really helps keeping an overall thread. Plus watching the series second might leave you more disappointed ("why didn't they include my favorite quote X!?") than the other way around ("I love reading more about this character that I already liked!").
watch the show first otherwise you will hate it... i made the mistake of picking up the books after season two and now watching season three is torture
Agreed, the novels are so much richer than the TV show. The level of detail that Mr. Martin put into the world continually blows my mind!
I watched seasons 1 & 2 before I started reading the books, and now I'm more interested in finishing book 5 than I am in staying current on the TV episodes.
UNDER PROMISE BUT OVER DELIVER. All to often a project manager feels compelled to promise the moon and the stars, inevitably setting themselves up for failure or at least a dissatisfied client.
HAVE A PLAN - it's no good setting out on a major undertaking if you don't know where you're going. Will your loyal followers continue to stick with you, if after a while it feels like you're just going round in circles?
UP OR OUT - growth and development is part of the cycle of life. Today's fresh blood will be tomorrow's experienced hand. Will their assigned role still be suitable?
Project management is too detached from reality and promises things comparable to transporting 40,000 horses across the ocean? I know, let's fix it with advice from an entirely fictional world!
It is fun article with some apt analogies and I am glad that I decided to read it despite the title. To me at least, "Game of Thrones" TV series would be a horrible project management tutorial, as almost all characters in it do not have a slightest idea what they want and/or how to achieve it, changing sides in a conflict on a whim. Obviously it is about a journey, not a destination for Westeros nobles.
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The novels are a must if you're after the detailed history and politics of the world the characters live in.
On the other hand, I have read that some bookreaders recommend to first watching the TV series as while it does "dumb down" a couple of things, it really helps keeping an overall thread. Plus watching the series second might leave you more disappointed ("why didn't they include my favorite quote X!?") than the other way around ("I love reading more about this character that I already liked!").
I watched seasons 1 & 2 before I started reading the books, and now I'm more interested in finishing book 5 than I am in staying current on the TV episodes.
UNDER PROMISE BUT OVER DELIVER. All to often a project manager feels compelled to promise the moon and the stars, inevitably setting themselves up for failure or at least a dissatisfied client.
HAVE A PLAN - it's no good setting out on a major undertaking if you don't know where you're going. Will your loyal followers continue to stick with you, if after a while it feels like you're just going round in circles?
UP OR OUT - growth and development is part of the cycle of life. Today's fresh blood will be tomorrow's experienced hand. Will their assigned role still be suitable?