How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner (mobi+epub+azw3+pdf+mp3+audiobook) 英文有声书下载

本书是作者Bent Flyvbjerg和Dan Gardner所著的一本书。本书讲述了大型项目的规划、实施和管理问题，从而探讨了这些项目成功的关键因素。

书中提到，大型项目常常面临着复杂的挑战，如预算和时间限制、政治和利益相关者的干预等。作者阐述了项目中的决策制定过程，以及应对不确定性和风险的策略。同时，书中还介绍了一些成功项目的案例，从中总结出了成功项目的共性和经验。

本书不仅适合项目管理人员和决策者阅读，同时也是一本深入了解大型项目的激动人心的读物。

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.