{"product_id":"how-big-things-get-done-by-bent-flyvbjerg","title":"How Big Things Get Done By Bent Flyvbjerg","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__ratingStats\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__ratingStats\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability. Incompetence and grift is outrageous. Bent Flyvbjerg, with this terrific data-driven book, has shown that there is another way.”—Frank Gehry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNothing 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese 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 $33 billion to $100 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 fail. Why?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnderstanding 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Big Things Get Done\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• Understand your odds. If you don’t know them, you won’t win.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• Plan slow, act fast. Getting to the action quick feels right. But it’s wrong. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• Think right to left. Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• Find your Lego. Big is best built from small.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• Be a team maker. You won’t succeed without an “us.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can’t, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• Know that your biggest risk is you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFull of vivid examples ranging from the building of the Sydney Opera House, to the making of the latest Pixar blockbusters, to a home renovation in Brooklyn gone awry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Big Things Get Done\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals how to get any ambitious project done—on time and on budget.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wide Genre","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":47505567678684,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":47505567711452,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/2044\/5148\/files\/5_6b10473f-4cd0-4e77-ab72-ca90c961a17b.png?v=1769702983","url":"https:\/\/widegenre.com\/products\/how-big-things-get-done-by-bent-flyvbjerg","provider":"WideGenre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}