4 historical big goal projects—and what we can learn from them by Andrew Youn

I am in­ter­ested in ex­plor­ing the idea of Big Goal pro­jects (aka goal-ori­ented megapro­jects).This is the sec­ond ar­ti­cle in a se­ries about Big Goal pro­jects (last one here). This ar­ti­cle ex­plores 4 his­tor­i­cal Big Goal pro­jects that uti­lized 4 differ­ent kinds of lev­ers to move the world. The ex­am­ples are ad­mit­tedly sim­plified, and this is early think­ing. Skep­tics, please feel free to pile on. But it is worth study­ing the les­sons learned from his­tory.At the heart of t...