
The Checklist Manifesto
How to Get Things Right
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Narrated by:
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John Bedford Lloyd
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By:
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Atul Gawande
The New York Times best-selling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist.
We live in a world of great 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 prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the US Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple 90-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.
In riveting stories, 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 virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from homeland security to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.
An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential listening for anyone working to get things right.
©2009 Atul Gawande (P)2009 Macmillan AudioListeners also enjoyed...




















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Loved it
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Great things accomplish following a process
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Excellent points!
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Good story, strong message, and a solid notation of how to be better at complex tasks.
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great read for any teams doing critical work
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practical for living
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Surprisingly relevant
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great tool hugely underused, take advantage of it!
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I routinely see opportunities to apply these lessons in my professional life, and hope that all professionals will - in time - come to hold themselves and their professions to the level of excellence that this book promises is achievable... with only a little more humility and discipline, but no real need for increased technical skill.
The only minor criticism I had was of the production, rather than the book. There were several places in the book where a line or two had been obviously recorded at a different time and spliced in afterwards, and it had a different sound quality and tone to the speaker’s voice.
Over-all, I highly recommend this book!
Should be required reading for all professionals who deal with complexity
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