Bent Flyvbjerg is a professor at Oxford University, an economist,
and 'the world's leading megaproject expert', according to global
accounting network KPMG. He has consulted on over one hundred
projects costing $1 billion or more and has been knighted by the
Queen of Denmark.
Dan Gardner is a journalist and the New York Times bestselling
author of Risk, Future Babble and Superforecasting (with Philip E.
Tetlock).
Important, timely, instructive and entertaining. What more could
you ask for?
*Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and author
of Thinking, Fast and Slow*
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*
Entertaining . . . compelling . . . there are lessons here for
managers of all stripes
*The Economist*
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
*Financial Times, 'FT business books: What to read this
month'*
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, New York University, and
author of The Black Swan*
My only complaint about this book is that it wasn’t written
earlier. It distils 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 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*
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