Megaproject Leaders

Edited by Nathalie Drouin, Professor, Department of Management, École des Sciences de la Gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM), Canada and Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, Shankar Sankaran, Professor, Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Alfons van Marrewijk, Professor of Construction Cultures, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, Adjunct Professor of Project Management, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway and Ralf Müller, Professor of Project Management, Department of Leadership and Organization, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

Contents:

Author biographies ix
Foreword by Jeffrey K. Pinto xvii
Acknowledgements xix

SECTION I INTRODUCTION
1 What is done through the lens of megaproject leaders’ life stories 2
Nathalie Drouin, Alfons van Marrewijk, Shankar
Sankaran and Ralf Müller
2 A biographical research approach 12
Alfons van Marrewijk, Shankar Sankaran, Ralf Müller
and Nathalie Drouin

SECTION II THE BIOGRAPHICAL LIFE STORIES
3 3 instead of 24 – complete closure of the A40 motorway 21
Yvonne Schoper
4 Storytelling from the authentic leader of High Speed 2
(HS2) Ltd. infrastructure megaproject in the United Kingdom 47
Natalya Sergeeva and Andrew Davies
5 Transformation2 : leading a megaproject turnaround 62
Bernard Naughton and Harvey Maylor
6 Developing a partnership in the Schiphol–Amsterdam–
Almere megaproject 84
Alfons van Marrewijk
7 The Gotthard Base Tunnel: the work of a century 101
Nathalie Drouin and Ralf Müller
8 The project owner and the project manager: the M4
motorway connecting Sydney from the west to the east 119
Daphne Freeder, Shankar Sankaran and Stewart Clegg
9 The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa:
a labour of love and learning 139
Daphne Freeder, Shankar Sankaran and Stewart Clegg
10 Childhood experiences and personality meet opportunity:
the formative development of a megaproject innovator 150
John Steen
11 Incheon Bridge, South Korea: the actualization of
a landmark envisioned a century ago 166
Maude Brunet
12 The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge and its project leader 181
Qian Shi and Chao Xiao
13 Attention and mindfulness: a tale of two megaprojects 201
Linzhuo Wang and Fangwei Zhu
14 Megaproject leadership in the developing world: an Indian
perspective 215
Ashwin Mahalingam
15 How to lead an urban megaproject: lessons from the Canada Line 232
Nathalie Drouin
16 Hydro-Québec megaprojects: learnings from a leader 248
Nathalie Drouin

SECTION III INSIGHTS AND CONCLUSIONS
17 Insights from personal perspectives 270
Ralf Müller, Alfons van Marrewijk, Nathalie Drouin and
Shankar Sankaran
18 Conclusions and reflections: what have we learnt about
megaproject leaders? 288
Shankar Sankaran, Alfons van Marrewijk, Nathalie
Drouin and Ralf Müller

Index 298