Greg Cheney
@Greg_Cheney
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A construction consultant in infrastructure for transport, minerals and energy. Tweets are my own.
Kuwait
Joined January 2010
I thought this book was alarming and brilliant. If you want to become (even more) deeply cynical about every statistic that comes out of a politician's (or journalist's or academic's) mouth, I recommend reading it immediately.
theguardian.com
A parliamentary statistician lays bare the use and abuse of numbers in public life
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1/16 THE [[IDEA-TO-REALITY PRODUCTION STACK]] A model for implementation-oriented [[@RoamResearch]] users. (diagram made with @plectica
https://t.co/qrvtZJNYI1 h/t @conaw)
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View from the stage as we are 3 minutes from launching the first #RICS Virtual Conference on #infrastructure - it’s certainly going to be different ! #ricsinfrastructure
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King John was not a good man, And no good friends had he. He stayed in every afternoon... But no one came to tea. And, round about December, The cards upon his shelf Which wished him lots of Christmas cheer, Were only from himself. ~A.A.Milne #WednesdayWisdom #Christmas #friends
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A few hours in the zone may be worth more than weeks in the haze. Creative people should notice and cultivate the state in which they excel. Crafting the conditions that promote excellence may not feel like important work, but it leads to important work. Perfect the process.
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The 18 best places to visit in 2018 including @ExperiencePerth via @CNNTravel đź‘ŹRead more: https://t.co/n5OMLTZC22
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Resolve to learn more in 2018. Courses are FREE to all worldwide until February 14, 2018, and no sign-in is required. https://t.co/MjThykJ7Wb
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Awesome #visualisation—the development of #metros in #China and #Taiwan by @pdovak
https://t.co/uP6O1dp24A | @smartcitiesanz @BentFlyvbjerg
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Roy Hill Holdings has settled a reputed $1 billion #construction dispute.
thewest.com.au
The out-of-court deal is understood to have been reached in the past few weeks.
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If you would like to hear Mr. Benjamin Highfield, Senior Vice President at HKA, providing insight on how to recover… https://t.co/7xQhKfrqSr
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Podcast - Revisit the lessons from the Hyatt Regency Collapse: 114 fatalities, 200 injured, 17 emergency rooms - https://t.co/QGzETtkZjc
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Most of us tend to be overconfident in our estimates. It’s important to allow for uncertainty.
hbr.org
When making decisions, we all rely too heavily on intuition and use flawed reasoning sometimes. But it’s possible to fight these pernicious sources of bias by learning to spot them and using the...
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Great advice from Australaw - "Good drafting thinks ahead to how the project will actually be carried out" 📝🔧🎯
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Thanks @HKAGlobal for sponsoring the #ICCEURO Conference on Intl #Arbitration, taking place in #Paris on 24 April. > https://t.co/7mPkbdlkWB
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Kuwait continues its steady pace of contract awards @CWMiddleEast
https://t.co/BE2dVcIKuD
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Optimising #infrastructure delivery with the Delivery Partner Model https://t.co/BIWp7LHDzQ
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What is dispute resolution in law and how do alternative #DisputeResolution methods operate inside a courtroom?
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