How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner - Paperback - Business & Project Management Book - Why Projects Succeed or Fail

Details Condition: Brand New Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781035018956 Publisher: Pan Macmillan (Macmillan Business) Overview How Big Things Get Done is the definitive guide to why some ambitious projects triumph while others collapse into delay and debt. Written by Oxford megaproject expert Professor Bent Flyvbjerg with bestselling author Dan Gardner, this paperback distils decades of research into practical, research-backed principles. From kitchen renovations to space missions, it shows planners, managers and curious readers exactly what separates success from costly failure. About the Book Understanding what distinguishes triumphant projects from disastrous ones has been the life's work of Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, whose database of megaprojects is unrivalled in scope. Teaming up with journalist and psychology author Dan Gardner, he turns years of rigorous study into an accessible, story-driven guide for anyone planning something big or small. The book moves fluidly between household names and everyday endeavours: the astonishing eleven-month sprint that delivered Apple's iPod, the years-late and billions-over-budget saga of London's Crossrail, the Sydney Opera House, the Empire State Building, and even a humble kitchen extension. Rather than treating these as isolated anecdotes, Flyvbjerg and Gardner extract repeatable principles - understand your true odds before you start, plan slowly but act quickly once committed, think from the end goal backwards, build big things from small, modular, testable pieces, and prepare deliberately for the unknown unknowns that derail so many plans. The result is a rare business book that is both intellectually rigorous and genuinely entertaining, packed with vivid case studies rather than dry theory. It has been named a Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times and the Economist, and shortlisted for the FT & Schroders Business Book of the Year Award, cementing its place as one of the most talked-about project management books of