In an interview with Project Magazine, Bent Flyvbjerg describes the challenges, causes, and cures of risk in major project management. Main challenges identified are benefit shortfalls, cost overruns, and schedule overruns. Root causes of risk are argued to be optimism bias and strategic...

Recently, as I was concluding a study on megaprojects, I was made to think of Nobel Price winner F.A. Hayek's controversial article "Why the Worst Get on Top," about the selection of political leaders. Like Hayek's political leaders, we found it is not necessarily the best megaprojects that...