Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner's How Big Things Get Done
Big projects are high-risk and high-cost by nature. In How Big Things Get Done (2023), megaproject expert Bent Flyvbjerg and bestselling author Dan Gardner share principles for completing major projects effectively, avoiding extreme budget and timeline overruns. They explain the psychological reasons why leaders rush into projects and detail the antidote, which is detailed planning with accurate cost and time forecasting. They highlight the fallacy of improvisation in creative projects, and promote the concept of modularity as a transformative tool for projects, especially those aimed at combating climate change.
