How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration audiobook runs 7.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Rob Shapiro (about 4.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 7.3 hours, it runs longer than 67% of the 6,016 Management & Leadership audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Rob Shapiro
Rob Shapiro narrates 195 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,128 hours in all.
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- The Killer
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About as long, on the Management & Leadership shelf
1,078 Management & Leadership audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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- The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration is an audiobook by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner: a 7.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Rob Shapiro, released February 16, 2023, on the Management & Leadership and Business & Career Development shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Rob Shapiro
- Released
- February 16, 2023
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Management & Leadership, Business & Career Development
- ISBN
- 9781035018970
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How long is the How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration audiobook?
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration runs 7.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.9 hours.
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Who narrates How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration?
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration is narrated by Rob Shapiro.