David Epstein
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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That made so much difference because it channeled and focused.
their work.
But sounds like similarly to the experience at Lowe's.
There was, at least for the CEO, maybe, a lack of really focusing tightly on what customer problem exists and what is the way that we're solving that.
That's so interesting.
And after I I wanna hear how the decision was made eventually to kill it because that's often very hard once a lot of money has been spent.
But
That sequencing it it reminded me of so it in
Inside a
bit about the work of a Danish professor named Bent Flubier who spent his career studying projects.
He kept a database of sixteen thousand projects.
And he led a bunch of projects him himself and was involved in projects that were
Over a billion dollars budget and things like that.
And
He defined what he said was the typical path what he found, first of all, was that only eight and a half percent of projects came in on time and budget and zero point five percent del did that and delivered the promised benefits.
And the typical pattern for
not working out well is what he called think fast, act slow, whether it be
A a hu a big idea that was so enticing that it would quickly become a big project.
And instead of starting small, doing some experimentation, some iteration, defining the boundaries.
biting off that small chunk, you just go into big execution really quickly.
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