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

Planning is hard because it's inherently different from other exercises your organization takes on . Rather than focusing on day-to-day execution, it requires a large number of people to think about a variety of possible futures, align on one single future, and then plot a concrete course to get there. Taking this on for your own personal goals (f

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While planning is very important, and we do a lot of it, there is only so much you can control in a creative environment. In general, I have found that people who pour their energy into thinking about an approach and insisting that it is too early to act are wrong just as often as people who dive in and work quickly. The overplanners just take long

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Hector shook his head energetically. “There is no such thing as a short term fix in our business. There is never a way to improve productivity in the short term. When you’re all done, the productivity you will achieve will be the direct result of the long term investment made by those before you. And the only real impact you can have on productivit

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Uma das primeiras coisas que aprendi na minha carreira é que, sempre que uma grande organização quer fazer algo, tudo sempre se concentra em uma única pessoa, que pode atrasar todo o projeto. Um engenheiro empaca à espera da decisão de um gerente; uma gerente pensa que não tem autoridade para fazer uma compra importantíssima. Essas pequenas hesitaç

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