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You may enjoy the book How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner. It details quite a few large-scale projects, mostly those that failed and went
by peterldowns 2y ago
You may enjoy the book How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner. It details quite a few large-scale projects, mostly those that failed and went way over budget, and tries to come up with a model for why this happens so often. The examples it uses of how to do things well are really exciting — did you know the Empire State building was also built ahead of schedule and under budget?
- FredPret 2y agoAnother book about a civil servant doing great things is “Racing for the bomb” about General Leslie Groves who built the Pentagon and led the Manhattan Project, completing both in record time.
- peterldowns 2y agoI just finished The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, and Groves comes across as a very fascinating guy. I'll add this to my bookmarks list, thank you. Any chance you know of a good biography of Henry Stimson?