The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Aptly Books
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The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the run of the mill checklist
We live in a world of fantastic and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to preclude grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed general practitioner and novelist Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to glide aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals nearly the world, helping doctors and nurses answer to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.
In riveting tales, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units effectively eliminated a type of deadly sickbay infection. He clarifies how checklists really work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.
An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple thought makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things aptly.
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, December 2009: With a title like The Checklist Manifesto, it would be natural to guess that Atul Gawande is bent on revolutionizing that most loved-despised activity of workers the world over: the to-do list. But it’s not the list itself he wants to exchange; there are no programmatic steps or tables here to help you reshuffle daily tasks. What you’ll find instead is a remarkably liberating and believable inquiry into what it takes to work successfully and with a private sense of satisfaction. The first thing you’ll realize is that it takes more than just one person to do a job well. This is a toppling revelation made all the more powerful by Gawande’s skillful blend of anecdote and matter-of-fact wisdom as he profiles his own experience as a general practitioner and seeks out a wide range of other professions to show that a team is only as strong as its checklist–by his definition, a way of organizing that empowers people at all levels to place their best knowledge to use, communicate at crucial points, and get things done. Like no other book before it, The Checklist Manifesto is at once a restorative call to action and a welcome voice of reason. –Anne Bartholomew Amazon Exclusive: Malcolm Gladwell Reviews The Checklist Manifesto
Malcolm Gladwell was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2005. He is most recently the author of What the Dog Saw (a collection of his writing from The New Yorker) as well as the New York Times bestsellers Outliers, The Tipping Top, and Blink. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of The Checklist Manifesto:
Over the past decade, through his writing in The New Yorker magazine and his books Complications and Better, Atul Gawande has made a name for himself as a novelist of exquisitely crafted meditations on the problems and challenges of modern medicine. His latest book, The Checklist Manifesto, starts on familiar ground, with his experiences as a general practitioner. But before long it becomes clear that he is really interested in a problem that afflicts effectively every aspect of the modern world–and that is how professionals deal with the increasing complexity of their responsibilities. It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so plotting-provoking.
Gawande starts by making a distinction between errors of ignorance (mistakes we make because we don’t know enough), and errors of ineptitude (mistakes we made because we don’t make proper use of what we know). Failure in the modern world, he writes, is really about the second of these errors, and he walks us through a run of examples from medicine showing how the routine tasks of surgeons have now become so incredibly complicated that mistakes of one kind or another are effectively inevitable: it’s just too simple for an otherwise competent doctor to miss a step, or forget to question a key question or, in the stress and pressure of the moment, to fail to plot properly for every eventuality. Gawande then visits with pilots and the people who build skyscrapers and comes back with a solution. Experts need checklists–literally–written guides that walk them through the key steps in any complex course of action. In the last section of the book, Gawande shows how his research team has taken this thought, developed a safe surgery checklist, and applied it nearly the world, with staggering success.
The danger, in a review as small as this, is that it makes Gawande’s book seem narrow in focus or prosaic in its conclusions. It is neither. Gawande is a gorgeous novelist and storyteller, and the aims of this book are ambitious. Gawande thinks that the modern world requires us to revisit what we mean by expertise: that experts need help, and that progress depends on experts having the humility to concede that they need help. –Malcolm Gladwell
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I HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM A POST SURGICAL INFECTION FROM SURGERY AT BAPTIST HOSPITAL IN WINSTON-SALEM. THIS IS THE BASE HOSPITAL OF WAKE FOREST MEDICAL SCHOOL. I HAVE FOUND THAT THEY SHOULD CHANGE THERE SCHOOL MASCOT TO HOME OF THE “DIRTY DEMON DOCTORS” INSTEAD OF THE “DEMON DEACONS”. I HAVE HAD AN INFECTION FOR 14 YEARS FROM FAT WHICH WAS PLANTED INTO MY FACE FROM MY ABDOMEN FOR MAINLY COSMETIC REASONS. I ALSO HAVE NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS FORM MAXILLARY MUSCLES WHICH WERE SUPPOSED TO BE NERVE FREE. I AM SO DISGUSTED THAT I BELIEVE THAT STERILE TECHNIQUES ARE USED FOR THE PROTECTION OF DOCTORS ONLY AND NOT EVEN TO PROTECT PATIENTS FROM OTHER PATIENTS. A STERN CHECKLIST WHICH HAS BEEN VERIFIED FOR IMPROVEMENT SHOULD BE STANDARD IN ALL MEDICAL FACILITIES.
Rating: 5 / 5
A grat tale about how to make just about anything better by the simple use of a check list.
Rating: 5 / 5
I like this book! My research on behavioral exchange is very supportive of the author’s research. We can all apply these concepts to improve our lives.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have noticed that nearly every book on Amazon gets 90% excellent reviews. The fact that even this book can get nearly all 4 and 5 star reviews makes me question why the system is so skewed. I’m not a hyper-critical reviewer as can be seen from my other reviews, but I found nothing helpful in this book. I expected to get some helpful insight, I gained none. I found the book to be one trite anecdotal tale after another about how someone using a checklist saved the day. Let me sum it up for you. Each tale goes something like this. Group A does task A and doesn’t use a checklist. Group B does task A and doesn’t use a checklist. Group C does task A and *does* use a checklist. And then the author anecdotally relates what a better job group C did because they used a checklist, ordinarily providing no data to back up his claims.
For those looking for any advice on better methods of implementing checklists, don’t guess to find *any*. And don’t guess to have the author question any evident questions such as, “maybe people/companies who use checklists do better not because by their very nature they are more disciplined and also perform other processes well”. In other words, as the well known science phrase goes, correlation does not imply causation. Observably I was expecting much more from this book. In my industry the use of checklists is common, in fact it’s honestly common in any industry that does repetitive tasks, even the building industry for example. So when I saw this book I assumed it *had* to be something more than just tales about using checklists, that it was going to provide those of us how live by checklists some insight. It doesn’t. If you know how to write a 10 top checklist, you’re excellent to go, no need to buy this book unless you just want to read some anecdotal tales abut how a checklist saved the day.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have read both of Gawande’s previous books and this book did not disappoint. Gawande takes us on a ride to learn how knowledge has both saved and weighed down us. It is certainly a book to read!
Rating: 5 / 5