How Big Things Get Done

The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

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<b>“Why do big projects go wrong so often, and are there any lessons you can use when renovating your kitchen? Bent Flyvbjerg is the ‘megaproject’ expert and Dan Gardner brings the storytelling skills to <i>How Big Things Get Done</i>, with examples ranging from a Jimi Hendrix studio to the Sydney Opera House.”—<i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br><b>“Entertaining . . . There are lessons here for managers of all stripes.”—<i>The Economist</i></b><br><br><b>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>Economist, Financial Times, CEO Magazine, Morningstar</i><br>Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award, the <i>Financial Times</i> and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award, and<b> the </b><i><b>Inc.</b></i><b> Non-Obvious Book Award</b><br><br>Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York’s skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.<br><br>These are wonderful stories. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”? Almost every sizeable city in the world has such a fiasco in its backyard. In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. The cost of California’s high-speed rail project soared from [...] billion to [...] billon—and won’t even go where promised. More modest endeavors, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly stall out. But why do some projects fail?<br><br>Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life’s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed “the world’s leading megaproject expert.” In <i>How Big Things Get Done</i>, he identifies the errors in judgment and decision-making that lead projects, both big and small, to fail, and the research-based principles that will ma

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EAN

9780593799017

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

209 x 137 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US