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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
How do you successfully plan and deliver a complex project on time and on budget? Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed the world's leading megaproject expert, in collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Dan Gardner, shares the secrets to successfully planning and delivering any project on any scale, from a home renovation to space exploration.
Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how Amazon started in a garage and became a global retail giant in five years; or how Apple's iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months; or how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York's skyline in twenty-one months.
These grand visions make for inspiring stories. But even for endeavors of far smaller scale, whether it's organizing an event, implementing a department-wide process, or renovating a home, require complex feats of planning and coordination. Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures in delivering on bold visions has been the life's work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg. In HOW BIG THINGS GET DONE, 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 make you succeed with yours.
For example:
- Understand your odds. If you don't know them, you won't win.
- Plan slow, act fast. Get to the action quick sounds right. But it's dead wrong.
- Think right to left: Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there.
- Find your Lego. Big is best built from small.
- Be a team maker. You won't succeed without an "us."
- Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can't, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can.
Full of vivid stories that are lively and engaging, from the building of the Sydney Opera House, to the making of Toy Story, to a home renovation gone awry, HOW BIG THINGS GET DONE reveals how to get any ambitious project done - on time and on budget.
Flyvbjerg has helped numerous organizations globally including the world's largest banks, consultancies, and technology companies - plan, manage, and fix projects. And the same principles he's followed to deliver these projects on time and budget apply to all. This is a big idea book that is not only loaded with practical takeaways, but is also timeless and will be a must read for anyone about to tackle a megaproject of their own.
Bent Flyvbjerg is a professor at Oxford University, an economist, and "the world's leading megaproject expert," according to the global accounting network KPMG. He has consulted on over one hundred projects costing $1 billion or more and has been knighted by the Queen of Denmark.
Dan Gardner is a journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of Risk, Future Babble, and Superforecasting (with Philip E. Tetlock).
These grand visions make for inspiring stories. But even for endeavors of far smaller scale, whether it's organizing an event, implementing a department-wide process, or renovating a home, require complex feats of planning and coordination. Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures in delivering on bold visions has been the life's work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg. In HOW BIG THINGS GET DONE, 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 make you succeed with yours.
For example:
- Understand your odds. If you don't know them, you won't win.
- Plan slow, act fast. Get to the action quick sounds right. But it's dead wrong.
- Think right to left: Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there.
- Find your Lego. Big is best built from small.
- Be a team maker. You won't succeed without an "us."
- Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can't, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can.
Full of vivid stories that are lively and engaging, from the building of the Sydney Opera House, to the making of Toy Story, to a home renovation gone awry, HOW BIG THINGS GET DONE reveals how to get any ambitious project done - on time and on budget.
Flyvbjerg has helped numerous organizations globally including the world's largest banks, consultancies, and technology companies - plan, manage, and fix projects. And the same principles he's followed to deliver these projects on time and budget apply to all. This is a big idea book that is not only loaded with practical takeaways, but is also timeless and will be a must read for anyone about to tackle a megaproject of their own.
Bent Flyvbjerg is a professor at Oxford University, an economist, and "the world's leading megaproject expert," according to the global accounting network KPMG. He has consulted on over one hundred projects costing $1 billion or more and has been knighted by the Queen of Denmark.
Dan Gardner is a journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of Risk, Future Babble, and Superforecasting (with Philip E. Tetlock).
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