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Transit expansion also often must clear hurdles that road projects don’t. Most transit expansion projects that receive federal funding get it through a program colloquially known as “New Starts” (officially the Capital Improvement Grants program). Their sponsors have to demonstrate that the project will offer mobility and congestion relief, environ

That is the challenge of working around one’s own cognitive limitations and biases—one’s own myopia. Our own myopia is the obstacle common to all strategic situations.

He noticed that many of the risks that fell into this quadrant were giant multi-billion-dollar projects managed by the DOE. MacWilliams coined his own acronym: BAFU. Billions and All Fucked Up. Anyway, when I had asked him for the fifth risk, he had thought about it and then seemed to relax a bit. The fifth risk did not put him at risk of revealing

Almost all public works arouse some opposition—roads require land, and some of the citizens from whom the land must be taken do not want it taken—and if the opposition is directed at an elected official, it can be translated into votes against him the next time his name appears on a ballot.

Brains projects usually involve highly skilled and highly paid professionals. Few procedures are routinizable: Each project is “one-off.” Accordingly, the opportunities for leveraging the top…

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Brains projects usually involve highly skilled and highly paid professionals. Few procedures are routinizable: Each project is “one-off.” Accordingly, the opportunities for leveraging the top…

Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.