Project Management via Game of Thrones

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.

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.

More Game of Thrones-related points to note.

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?

Maybe one more lesson from Tyrion Lannister:

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.

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.