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How Big Things Get Done
- The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between
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One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2023
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects.
Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York's skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.
These are wonderful stories. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”? Almost every sizeable city in the world has such a fiasco in its backyard. In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. The cost of California’s high-speed rail project soared from $33 billion to $100 billon—and won’t even go where promised. More modest endeavors, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. Why?
Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life’s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed “the world’s leading megaproject expert.” In How Big Things Get Done, he identifies the errors in judgment and decision-making that lead projects, both big and small, to fail, and the research-based principles that will make you succeed with yours. For example:
- Understand your odds. If you don't know them, you won't win.
- Plan slow, act fast. Getting to the action quick feels right. But it's wrong.
- Think right to left. Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there.
- Find your Lego. Big is best built from small.
- Be a team maker. You won't succeed without an "us."
- Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can't, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can.
- Know that your biggest risk is you.
Full of vivid examples ranging from the building of the Sydney Opera House, to the making of the latest Pixar blockbusters, to a home renovation in Brooklyn gone awry, How Big Things Get Done reveals how to get any ambitious project done—on time and on budget.
For a visual representation of the charts and graphs mentioned throughout, as well as Appendix A and B, please be sure to download the Bonus PDF accompanying this program.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Reseñas de la Crítica
“Entertaining . . . The picture that [Flyvbjerg] and Mr Gardner draw of why projects, large and small, tend to go wrong is compelling. . . . There are lessons here for managers of all stripes.” —The Economist
“Stories of gigantic and costly failures, from the Sydney Opera House to successive editions of the Olympic Games, are entertaining and chastening in equal measure. But Flyvbjerg and Gardner also manage to extract valuable lessons about how to plan, forecast and execute any size of project, be it a kitchen remodelling or a high-speed trainlink.” —Financial Times, Best Summer Books of 2023: Business
“Ignore [this book] at your peril.” —Peter Coy, The New York Times
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Almost everyone feels stuck in some way. Whether you’re muddling through a midlife crisis, wrestling with writer’s block, trapped in a thankless job, or trying to remedy a fraying friendship, the resulting emotion is usually a mix of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, anger, and numbness. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Anatomy of a Breakthrough is the “deeply researched and compelling” (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism) roadmap we all need to escape our inertia and flourish in the face of friction.
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- De Kindle Customer en 08-27-23
De: Adam Alter
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Scaling People
- Tactics for Management and Company Building
- De: Claire Hughes Johnson
- Narrado por: Claire Hughes Johnson
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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Scaling People is a practical and empathetic guide to being an effective leader and manager in a high-growth environment. The tactical information it puts forward—including guidance on crafting foundational documents, strategic and financial planning, hiring and team development, and feedback and performance mechanisms—can be applied to companies of any size, in any industry.
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Comprehensive and practical handbook for operating conpanies
- De J Kuo en 03-16-24
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- De: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrado por: Richard Lyddon
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members.
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- De Brad en 07-04-19
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Tokens
- The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
- De: Rachel O’Dwyer
- Narrado por: Gabrielle Baker
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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Wherever you look, money is being replaced by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money—like things, from phone credit, to shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, and customer data. These tokens are used to turn invisible stuff into assets, to pay wages, to track purchases, and to program and specify the terms of financial and political access and inclusion. What does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps, or actions, politics, or identities?
De: Rachel O’Dwyer
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Best Things First
- De: Bjorn Lomborg
- Narrado por: Pete Ferrand
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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World leaders have promised everything to everyone. But they are failing. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are supposed to be delivered by 2030. The goals literally promise everything, like eradicating poverty, hunger and disease; stopping war and climate change, ending corruption, fixing education along with countless other promises.
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Wonderful book but mentions constantly a PDF that
- De Georges en 11-13-23
De: Bjorn Lomborg
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No Filter
- The Inside Story of Instagram
- De: Sarah Frier
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing, Sarah Frier
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple but irresistible feature: It would make anything you captured look more beautiful. The cofounders cultivated a community of photographers and artisans around the app, and it quickly went mainstream. In less than two years, it caught Facebook’s attention: Mark Zuckerberg bought the company for a historic one billion dollars when Instagram had only 13 employees.
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Well Told Story of the Rise and Reach of Instagram
- De Jenny Jenkins en 05-03-20
De: Sarah Frier
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Anansi's Gold
- The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
- De: Yepoka Yeebo
- Narrado por: Jude Owusu
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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When Ghana achieved independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to claim whatever assets colonialism hadn’t already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation’s inspiring president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of hiding the country’s gold overseas. Into this big lie stepped one of history’s most charismatic scammers, a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi.
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Riveting
- De Agyaaku en 10-14-23
De: Yepoka Yeebo
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Loonshots
- How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
- De: Safi Bahcall
- Narrado por: William Dufris, Safi Bahcall - prologue and introduction
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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Physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs. Drawing on the science of phase transitions, Bahcall reveals why teams, companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing wild new ideas to rigidly rejecting them.
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- De pd park en 04-25-19
De: Safi Bahcall
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What You Do Is Who You Are
- How to Create Your Business Culture
- De: Ben Horowitz
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times best-selling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. What You Do Is Who You Are explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building.
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Life changing book!
- De Jurell Tanksley en 10-30-19
De: Ben Horowitz
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Culture
- The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop
- De: Martin Puchner
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"—the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of insights from the past and from other cultures. In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history.
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Must read book
- De Anonymous User en 08-05-24
De: Martin Puchner
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Playing Big
- Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message
- De: Tara Mohr
- Narrado por: Tara Mohr
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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A groundbreaking women's leadership expert and popular conference speaker gives women the practical skills to voice and implement the changes they want to see - in themselves and in the world.
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Life-altering in all the good ways
- De Natasha en 06-16-15
De: Tara Mohr
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The Coming Wave
- Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
- De: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
- Narrado por: Mustafa Suleyman
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful new technologies.
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Click bait
- De Buyer en 09-11-23
De: Mustafa Suleyman, y otros
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Scale
- The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
- De: Geoffrey West
- Narrado por: Bruce Mann
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term complexity can be misleading, however, because what makes West's discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities, and our businesses.
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- De UUbu en 10-30-17
De: Geoffrey West
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Get Big Things Done
- The Power of Connectional Intelligence
- De: Erica Dhawan, Saj-nicole Joni
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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Connectional intelligence unlocks the 21st-century secret to getting "big things done" regardless of who you are, where you live, or what you do. We typically associate success and leadership with smarts, passion, and luck. But in today's hypercompetitive world, even those gifts aren't enough. Get Big Things Done argues that the game changer is a thoroughly modern skill called connectional intelligence.
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Good examples not sure CXQ works as described.
- De Michael A. Garcia en 04-18-17
De: Erica Dhawan, y otros
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Superforecasting
- The Art and Science of Prediction
- De: Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week's meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts' predictions are only slightly better than chance. However, an important and underreported conclusion of that study was that some experts do have real foresight.
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Great for Experts
- De Michael en 02-20-17
De: Philip Tetlock, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre How Big Things Get Done
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- g. patrick hunter III
- 02-18-23
Fantastic
One of the best business books I’ve ever listened to. The author’s huge historical database of project outcomes lend credence to his solutions.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-21-23
Absolutely Amazing!
How Big Things Get Done is a must read for anyone working on any size project! The book provides many real world examples and various tools on how to approach any size project. I learned a tremendous amount from this book and will definitely be utilizing the tools and practices it teaches in my profession and personal life. Highly recommend!
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- K. MCINDOO
- 11-03-23
Good story, lots of history
Overall, it is good but is missing the silver bullet. Planning, legos, but did not give me a new tool to apply.
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- Zero Waste Lady
- 01-30-24
Should be required reading
This should be required reading for all engineers especially in the civil infrastructure space.
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- Siarhei Kiklevich
- 08-02-24
Real life examples, data, stats, and references to useful information
Great real life examples help to really understand what can be done for even the smallest projects to increase chances of success. Threat book full of useful knowledge
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- Dustin
- 06-08-23
Fantastic book, cover to cover
Absolutely loved this one, cover to cover. Highly recommend, particularly for those in leadership roles or aspiring to join those ranks.
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- DDG-15
- 07-24-23
“Your biggest risk is you “
This is an important book. Written clearly and to the point. There are profound lessons woven together throughout; and discussed in a way that can be comprehended, visualized and put into use.
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- Cyril George
- 04-15-24
Must read for project management
Really good book on how to focus and deliver successful projects with real life simple examples
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- Ssinbad
- 05-17-24
Superb advice delivered as entertainment
The author does a phenomenal job of presenting usable project management recommendations using stories of real, relatable projects and backs up his recommendations with data.
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- Ellen Smith
- 02-15-23
Fantastic topic.
This was very week done. Could not put it down. i would recommend this to anyone working on large, complex projects.
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