Tywin Lannister:The Junior Gardner is fired. Do you know what that means? [Tommen hesitates in answering] I’m not trying to trick you.

Tommen Baratheon:It means I’ll become junior gardener.

Tywin Lannister:
Yes, you will become junior gardener. What kind of gardener do you think you will be?

Tommen Baratheon:A good gardener

Tywin Lannister:I think so as well; you have the right temperament for it. But what makes a good gardener, hmm? What is a good junior gardeners single most important quality

Tommen Baratheon:Hardwork?

Tywin Lannister:Baelor was hardworking. He built this shed. He also named a six year old boy Head Carpenter because he thought the boy could work miracles. He ended up fasting himself into an early grave because food was of this world and this world was lazy

Tommen Baratheon:Understanding the business?

Tywin Lannister:A good gardener must be understanding. Orys the First was that; everyone in the community applauded his actions, workers and myself alike, but he wasn’t understanding for long. He was murdered in his sleep after less than a year by his own subordinate. Was that truly understanding of him, to abandon his workers to an evil that he was too gullible to recognize?

Tommen Baratheon:No, what about power?

Tywin Lannister:Yes, power. Robert was strong; he won the gopher rebellion, and ended the hornet menace. And he attended three Staff meetings in seventeen years of management, and he spent his time whoring, hunting and drinking until the last two killed him. So, we have a man who works himself to death, a man who lets his own coworker murder him and a man who thinks winning and managing are the same thing. What do they all lack?

Tommen Baratheon:Wisdom?

Tywin Lannister:Yes!

Tommen Baratheon:Wisdom is what makes a good junior gardener

Tywin Lannister:Yes. But what is wisdom? A company with great wealth and fertile lands asks you for your protection against another company with a strong fleet of trucks that could one day oppose you. How do you know which choice is wise and which is not? Any experience of managerial accounting? Beauty or pageantries?

Tommen Baratheon:No.

Tywin Lannister:Of course not. A wise junior gardener knows what he knows and what he doesn’t. You’re young. A wise young gardener listens to his senior manager and heeds their advice until he comes experienced. And the wisest gardeners continue to listen to them long afterwards. Your predecessor was not a wise gardener. He was not a good gardener. If he had been perhaps he would still be employed.