Books by Bent Flyvbjerg
“This book is exceptionally interesting. Bent Flyvbjerg is an Oxford-based Danish academic. He is the main writer and it’s mainly based on his work, with Dan Gardner as co-author. Flyvbjerg’s work is to look at megaprojects and he poses a law of megaprojects: that they generally go over budget and over time and why this is bad.” Read more...
The Best Business Books of 2023: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
Andrew Hill, Journalist
Interviews where books by Bent Flyvbjerg were recommended
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The Blunders of Our Governments
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How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
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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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Conundrum: Why Every Government Gets Things Wrong and What We Can Do About it
by Christopher Hope & Richard Bacon -
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Clashing Agendas: Inside the Welfare Trap
by David Freud
The best books on Big Projects, recommended by Jonathan Simcock
The best books on Big Projects, recommended by Jonathan Simcock
In order to have fewer failed projects, we need to address some of the deep structural incentives in the system, argues Jonathan Simcock, who spent 16 years leading and advising on large UK government projects. He talks us through books to read to understand more about big projects and why they go wrong, and how to do better in future.
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive
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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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Elon Musk
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by Michael Bhaskar & Mustafa Suleyman
The Best Business Books of 2023: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2023: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
If you like nonfiction books that will get you up to speed with what’s going on in the world, the Financial Times annual book prize is a great place to start. If you run a business, one or two useful books also feature. Andrew Hill, the newspaper’s senior business writer, talks us through the books that made the 2023 shortlist, from cobalt extraction in the Congo to how to manage the AI genie that’s out of the bottle and coming towards us at speed.
