Roxanne Rosenstein was the original product manager for Google Drive and co-invented Gmail chat. She says working at Google didn't match her vision of working in a company. By day, she helped invent Facebook's like button; by night they were building software to help manage their workflow. "I am tearing my hair out," one colleague said after seeing how much time is spent on status updates.
Whether it’s a giant infrastructure plan or a humble kitchen renovation, it’ll inevitably take way too long and cost way too much. That’s because you suffer from “the planning fallacy.” (You also have an “optimism bias” and a bad case of overconfidence.) But don’t worry: we’ve got the solution.