Летая вслепую: Сказание о мертвых сделках, превышении затрат и пропущенных сроках - Пора взять контроль в свои руки

In the cockpit, being polite can kill you. In construction, it will kill your project. The $1.6 trillion construction industry is crashing every day because of Polite Lies — contractors forced to bid low knowing they'll need change orders to survive, architects designing visions without real budget constraints, owners approving plans they can't actually afford, and everyone hoping the numbers will somehow work out. The result? Dead deals. Cost overruns. Depleted life savings. Relationships destroyed across the entire project team. Here's what nobody talks about: this isn't a people problem—it's a system problem. When budgets are built on guesswork and designs are approved before anyone knows the real cost, every stakeholder is set up to fail. The contractor becomes the villain for charging what the project actually costs. The architect watches their vision get butchered in value engineering. The owner feels blindsided by a number that was never real to begin with. It's time to stop flying blind. Lisa M. Cini draws on 30 years of experience to dismantle the "Paradox of Budgeting" and the "Visualization Gap" that force smart professionals to make million-dollar decisions based on incomplete information. Flying Blind introduces The Alignment Formula—a patented system that replaces wishful thinking with Real Numbers + Real Design + Real Visualization delivering Real Decision, Really Fast. When everyone on the project is working from the same truth, contractors can bid what the job actually costs. Architects can design to real constraints instead of imaginary ones. And owners can make informed decisions before signing a single contract. Whether you're an owner risking everything on your first development, a contractor tired of being blamed for budget failures you didn't create, an architect who's watched too many projects get value-engineered into mediocrity, or an interior designer fighting for finishes that keep getting cut—this book shows you how to land the project safely and protect the relationships that matter.