How Big Things Get Done
16 February 2023
Imprint: Macmillan
Synopsis
Best Books of 2023 in The Financial Times
Shortlisted for Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023
‘Important, timely, instructive and entertaining’ – Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
'Entertaining . . . compelling . . . there are lessons here for managers of all stripes' – The Economist
Megaproject expert Bent Flyvbjerg and bestselling author Dan Gardner...
Details
16 February 2023
437 minutes
Rob Shapiro
9781035018970
Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
A wise, vivid, and unforgettable combination of inspiring storytelling with decades of practical research and experience.Tim Harford, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add Up
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 expectedOla Rosling, bestselling co-author of Factfulness
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 Superforecasting
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 Gut Feelings