【职场甄嬛】《权力的游戏》之职场真理

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们还记得那威风凛凛的、令维斯特洛大陆上的王尊贵族们无比渴望的The Iron Throne吗？
The Iron Throne is, of course, the ultimate symbol of power. Being anywhere near it is a dangerous business.

围绕着象征终极权利的大铁座是接连不断的血雨腥风的权利斗争。

Over the past few seasons, we have watched as one king was gored by a wild boar and his malevolent successor was poisoned at his wedding feast. All the while the body count has mounted. One head after another has been hoisted on the pikes at King’s Landing while other victims have been roasted by dragon fire, stabbed, shot with arrows, scorched with molten gold and speared in the stomach.

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场如战场，许多人在里面绞尽脑汁、费尽心智，为要赢得事业上的发展，往往需要学习一些职场之术。在小编看来，《权力的游戏》是一本不错的教科书。下面一起来看看可以从中学到的5个职场小贴士。

It’s dangerous to boast about family connections in the workplace

千万别在职场中吹嘘你的家庭关系

Dashing, valiant, silver-tongued Jaime Lannister had all to play for at the start of the series. There were a few factors that made him untouchable. His strength and skill on the battlefield were one, but just as effective was his family purse. “A Lannister always pays his debts,” he reminded. Life was not just a struggle, it was also a business transaction.

Yet, it doesn’t always pay to boast. After being captured by Locke – a local warlord – Jaime attempts to barter his freedom, citing his family connections. A furious, Locke wheels around and, with a carving knife, chops off his right hand.

It’s a scene that reminds us that no one likes a braggart at work, especially one who has forged their career paths through nepotism.

Make an effort to learn the language of the people you’re dealing with

学好语言很重要

While much of the action has been fixed on King’s Landing in the opening four seasons, over the narrow sea Daenerys Targaryen has been steadily building her army. And in doing so the “khaleesi” has proved herself an adept leader. She is a humanitarian who aims to liberate rather than enslave, and one of her tricks has been to learn the native language of the people she encounters. It is a tactic that has served her well, first with the Dothraki horse-mounted warriors, then later with the Unsullied of Astapor. There, after a long negotiation process, she surprises the arrogant slave master Kraznys mo Nakloz, with a line of perfect Valyrian. Moments later he is barbequed by her dragon.

Learn to bide your time

学会等待时机

Robb Stark, King Joffrey, Stannis Baratheon – these are the characters who have been demanding our attention over the past few years. Meanwhile, the corpulent eunuch Lord Varys has lingered in the shadows, surviving coups, battles and plots with unflappable ease. It’s a reminder to us all in these days when constant professional progress is demanded of us that time is one thing that cannot be hurried. Quite against the grain, Varys has bidden his time, in Orwell’s words, “chewing his grievances like a cud”. “Influence is largely a matter of patience,” he says.

Go out for a gentle walk

散散步、聊聊天

While the ledgers, letters and edicts are pored over in the small council chamber, out in the bucolic hanging gardens of King’s Landing important business is being transacted. There is no better example of this than Lady Margaery and her sharp, scheming grandmother, Lady Olenna of the House Tyrell. Strolling along the pathways, nibbling on lemon cake or a block of cheese and laying down her natty axioms – “Once the cow’s been milked there’s no squirting the cream back up her udder” – Lady Olenna is superb at extracting information and it takes her all of five minutes to garner what she needs to know from Sansa Stark.

Don’t forget to acknowledge those who do good work for you

感谢帮助过你的人

If one of the key tenets of management is knowing when to praise your staff, then the dysfunctional relationship between Tyrion Lannister and his father Tywin Lannister must be instructive for us all. The grand patriarch, the hand of the king, the holder of the family purse, for as long as Game of Thrones has been going, Tywin has been the pre-eminent figure of power, and towards his dwarf son he has always been hostile.

His admonishments had, by the end of season four, become a feature of every episode. “You are an ill-made, spiteful little creature, full of envy, lust and low cunning”, he would moan. Yet praise, now and then, goes a long way. It’s a thought that might well have flashed through Tywin’s mind when his privy door swung open at the end of season four. Before him was his son, angry and rejected, levelling a crossbow. “I am your son – I have always been your son,” Tyrion whispered as he pulled the trigger.

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