The Checklist Manifesto : How to Get Things Right

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Essential guide to getting things right.

The book provides practical tips through the checklist manifesto to improve and make sure things go smoothly in fields ranging from medicine to businesses. It offers an intellectual adventure with riveting stories, revealing what checklists can do, what they can't, and how to bring striking improvements in various fields. Recommended for those seeking to improve productivity and efficiency through simple yet powerful practices.

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The Checklist Manifesto : How to Get Things Right

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ISBN: 9780312430009
Authors: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2011-01-04
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development, Business, Science
Goodreads rating: 4.04
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In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry—in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people—consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can’t, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds. And the insights are making a difference. Already, a simple surgical checklist from the World Health Organization designed by following the ideas described here has been adopted in more than twenty countries as a standard for care and has been heralded as “the biggest clinical invention in thirty years” ( The Independent ).
 

Essential guide to getting things right.

The book provides practical tips through the checklist manifesto to improve and make sure things go smoothly in fields ranging from medicine to businesses. It offers an intellectual adventure with riveting stories, revealing what checklists can do, what they can't, and how to bring striking improvements in various fields. Recommended for those seeking to improve productivity and efficiency through simple yet powerful practices.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.