The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
Jul 2010 · Profile Books
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THE GAME-CHANGING BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BEING MORTAL
Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled people. But avoidable failures are common, and the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of our knowledge has exceeded our ability to consistently deliver it - correctly, safely or efficiently.
In this groundbreaking book, Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument for the checklist, which he believes to be the most promising method available in surmounting failure. Whether you're following a recipe, investing millions of dollars in a company or building a skyscraper, the checklist is an essential tool in virtually every area of our lives, and Gawande explains how breaking down complex, high pressure tasks into small steps can radically improve everything from airline safety to heart surgery survival rates. Fascinating and enlightening, The Checklist Manifesto shows how the simplest of ideas could transform how we operate in almost any field.
Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled people. But avoidable failures are common, and the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of our knowledge has exceeded our ability to consistently deliver it - correctly, safely or efficiently.
In this groundbreaking book, Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument for the checklist, which he believes to be the most promising method available in surmounting failure. Whether you're following a recipe, investing millions of dollars in a company or building a skyscraper, the checklist is an essential tool in virtually every area of our lives, and Gawande explains how breaking down complex, high pressure tasks into small steps can radically improve everything from airline safety to heart surgery survival rates. Fascinating and enlightening, The Checklist Manifesto shows how the simplest of ideas could transform how we operate in almost any field.
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May 18, 2012
Gawande went down his book writing checklist, which he all but admits in his acknowledgements. He got folks to help him with consistence and tone and all the things needed to make a great book and you know what? He got a great book. Not the greatest, but great.
So what might have turned it from great into the greatest? A little instruction on how ordinary people like you and I can take what we do and use checklists appropriately to add value to our lives. In other words, a workbook section. Plus a few tables and illustrations would have added immensely. Photos weren't necessary; just a sample checklist here and there, particularly before and after versions.
Still the book is worth four stars.
Got this review done. Check. On to the next review.
Myles H
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January 28, 2015
On listening to the Reith lectures I got this unputdownable book, I'm sure my pulse was raised reading it all. How can that be in a book about checklists? Because it's a book chock full of well-told stories, and dramas which occur in this increasingly complex world in which specialists and super specialists are found wanting. There's a slight issue with framing too many diverse tools into this checklist paradigm; for instance he visits top-end building sites which have conflict-detection systems, complex Gantt/dependency charts, and regular comms meet-ups, but Atul comes away saying "see another checklist of sorts". That said I'm sure their industry just like many others could do with a well-honed checklist. We started using them in UK Government Digital Projects, ours are a little overblown as they're consolidated do-verify checklists covering several expertise fields (130 questions in total) still if you can't answer them we fail the project ensuring the project was carried out in the right way and has arrived at a sufficiently good product. I'll be recommending this to all my colleagues. p.s. I don't write a lot of book reviews, this compelled me to!
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Kwena Sibande
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September 18, 2015
We often say people are geniuses. The This book tells us why these people succeed in complex situations where the avarage person wouldn't succeed.
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About the author
Atul Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the New Yorker magazine. He is also Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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