Ep. 1156: Bent Flyvbjerg Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

My guest today is Bent Flyvbjerg, the first BT Professor and inaugural Chair of Major Programme Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School and the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor and Chair in Major Program Management at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has pioneered research in behavioral science, including power bias, strategic misrepresentation, optimism bias, the planning fallacy, and reference class forecasting. He is the founder and co-founder of a dozen highly successful research groups, degree programs, and startups.

The topic is his book written with co-author Dan Gardner: How Big Things Get Done.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• The greatest achievement as an entrepreneur
• Identifying the psychology
• Perspective in an execution chasm
• Democracy
• The key to success

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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