Because executives with experience were difficult to find. How hard can it be to deliver a big project?, the owners pondered. The oil and gas industry delivers big projects. A hydroelectric dam is a big project. Ergo, executives from oil and gas companies should be able to deliver a dam. Or so the owners reasoned—and hired oil and gas executives to build the dam. The reader will not be surprised to learn that in sharp contrast to the Hoover Dam, this project turned into a fiasco that threatened the economy of a whole province. That was when I was brought in to diagnose the problem—too late.[2]
