Nicholas Burns spent 2021 to 2025 in Beijing as US Ambassador to China, witnessing up close the forces shaping the world's most dangerous rivalry. Sitting across from Xi Jinping and living in China, he saw firsthand how dangerously close the world is to a crisis. Some of it genuinely terrified him. Our conventional wisdom about China? Outdated. And dangerously wrong. In this episode, he reveals the alarming "nightmare scenario" almost no one is talking about, why a single unanswered phone ...
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Nicholas Burns spent 2021 to 2025 in Beijing as US Ambassador to China, witnessing up close the forces shaping the world's most dangerous rivalry. Sitting across from Xi Jinping and living in China, he saw firsthand how dangerously close the world is to a crisis. Some of it genuinely terrified him. Our conventional wisdom about China? Outdated. And dangerously wrong. In this episode, he reveals the alarming "nightmare scenario" almost no one is talking about, why a single unanswered phone ...
Why 199 of 200 Projects Fail: The Iron Law That Dooms Even the Smartest Ideas (#268)
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Why 199 of 200 Projects Fail: The Iron Law That Dooms Even the Smartest Ideas (#268)
What do kitchen renovations, Olympic Games, and nuclear power plants have in common? Most of them fail — spectacularly. World-renowned expert Bent Flyvbjerg explains why 199 out of 200 big projects go over budget, over time, and under expectations — and what the rare successful ones do differently. From Pixar films to the Empire State Building, learn the principles that separate disasters from triumphs.
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Nicholas Burns spent 2021 to 2025 in Beijing as US Ambassador to China, witnessing up close the forces shaping the world's most dangerous rivalry. Sitting across from Xi Jinping and living in China, he saw firsthand how dangerously close the world is to a crisis. Some of it genuinely terrified him. Our conventional wisdom about China? Outdated. And dangerously wrong. In this episode, he reveals the alarming "nightmare scenario" almost no one is talking about, why a single unanswered phone ...
