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How Big Things Get Done | The Numbers Were Never Real
Why do the world’s biggest projects so often cost more, take longer, and deliver less than promised? In How Big Things Get Done, Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner argue that the answer begins long before construction starts: poor planning, optimism bias, premature commitment, and a failure to learn from what happened before.Drawing on a database of more than sixteen thousand projects, Flyvbjerg shows how megaprojects repeatedly fall into the same pattern — over budget, over time, under benefits. His solution is deceptively simple: think slow, act fast. Plan carefully, build quickly, and whenever…
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