![]() ![]() In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”? Almost every sizeable city in the world has such a fiasco in its backyard. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. 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. Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Bent Flyvbjerg, with this terrific data-driven book, has shown that there is another way.”-Frank Gehry “Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability. What more could you ask for?”-Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow ![]() “This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale-from home renovation to space exploration-by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects ![]()
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