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What is project execution?  Getting on with it.

Megaproject expert Professor Bent Flyvbjerg’s new book, How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to space exploration, digs deep into what makes major projects a success and how these factors can be replicated across any project, no matter what size.

It’s often difficult.

“To effectively communicate, we must realise that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others,” Tony Robins.

For project professionals in the energy sector, public support for renewable electricity generation ought to be encouraging.

Many project leaders today are under the kind of pressure that would crush a normal person.

If you go to Reykjavík any time soon, you’ll be impressed by the cranes, construction sites and buzz around the diminutive Icelandic capital.

For me, becoming a mentor was a natural transition from working on an individual on a project.

In today’s unprecedented times, almost every organisation undergoes continuous change, whether political, social, economic or environmental.

We have worked in project management for more than 30 years each, in the public and private sectors, education and as consultants.