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The Checklist Manifesto is a fascinating investigation into the ability of checklists in business, medicine and every day life to promote greater efficiency, consistency and safety - by surgeon and public health researcher, Atul Gawande. (208 pages)
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The Checklist Manifesto Review
TLDR; Checklists are an essential tool for getting things consistently right AND freeing up headspace in the process.
If there’s anything you repeatedly do in life or work that would benefit from consistent execution: put the steps in a checklist, put the checklist somewhere obvious and follow the checklist every single time you repeat the activity.
Like Gawande’s Being Mortal, The Checklist Manifesto is one of those books whose core idea isn’t rocket science, but does a great job of expounding the importance (and wide-reaching relevance) of a simple yet powerful idea with well-written, well-researched case studies.
The Checklist Manifesto Summary
This publisher’s blurb comes from the Profile Books paperback edition of The Checklist Manifesto…
“We live in a world of great complexity, where even the experts struggle to master the challenges they face. But acclaimed surgeon and best-selling writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the simplest of techniques: the humble checklist.
First introduced by the US Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind boggling sophistication. Now they are being adopted in the NHS and hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches.
Gawande explains how checklists actually work to effect striking and immediate improvements – and he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction and business of all kinds.
The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.”
The Checklist Manifesto Contents
The Checklist Manifesto has 9 main chapters and 1 appendix…
Introduction
- The Problem of Extreme Complexity
- The Checklist
- The End of the Master Builder
- The Idea
- The First Try
- The Checklist Factory
- The Test
- The Hero in the Age of Checklists
- The Save
Appendix: Example Checklists
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