How Big Things Get Done
«A truly fascinating read. There’s a practical pay-off, too: a toolbox with eleven smart heuristics for better project leadership that every planner should know»
Gerd Gigerenzer, author of <i>Gut Feelings</i>
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Macmillan
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781035018932
- Utgivelsesår
- 2023
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«A truly fascinating read. There’s a practical pay-off, too: a toolbox with eleven smart heuristics for better project leadership that every planner should know»
Gerd Gigerenzer, author of <i>Gut Feelings</i>
«Full of delicious anecdotes about project management disasters . . . Flyvbjerg and co-author Gardner succeed in extracting valuable lessons from these failures — and some occasional successes»
<i>Financial Times</i>
«Having researched the properties of planning errors, I am confident that nobody has studied the topic more broadly and deeply than Bent Flyvbjerg. His focus ranges from Olympic Games to the renovation of your dog house»
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, Ne
«My only complaint about this book is that it wasn’t written earlier. It distills decades of systematic research from thousands of projects. The result is a crystal-clear pattern of surprising reasons why almost all big human projects fail to deliver as expected»
Ola Rosling, bestselling co-author of <i>Factfulness</i>
«The best scientific advice on project planning. It is arguably the bargain of the century. For a few dollars you can tap into thousands of dollars of insights in executive-education classrooms»
Philip Tetlock, bestselling co-author of <i>Superforecasting</i>
«Important, timely, instructive and entertaining. What more could you ask for?»
Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and author of <i>Thinking, Fast and Slow</i>
«A wise, vivid and unforgettable combination of inspiring storytelling with decades of practical research and experience»
Tim Harford, bestselling author of <i>How to Make the World Add Up</i>
«Entertaining . . . compelling . . . there are lessons here for managers of all stripes»
<i>Economist</i>