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The Checklist Manifesto

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The Checklist Manifesto

By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
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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 audiobook, 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.

©2019 Atul Gawande (P)2009 Macmillan Audio Career Success Medicine & Health Care Industry Policy & Administration Political Science Politics & Government Aviation

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A very pleasant read, with lots of interesting and, I would say, important stories, one of these including the active participation of the author. Also, a well argued case for increasing the adoption of a more team-centric, disciplined adherence to practioner-validated protocol in domains such as meficine, law or even investment, as opposed to the more cavalier approach of expecting the master/expert surgeon/engjneer/aviator/lawyer/analyst to avoid all mistakes and omissions by virtue of their skill & experience alone.

An excellent overvirw of and argument for the checklist approach

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very useful, but such simple common sense. the advice in this can be applied in every situation. great to listen to

very useful guidance and anecdotes

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Disappointingly bereft of information about making and using checklists, but examples stories and analogies were good if you like surgery and aviation.

Stories about surgery and aviation not much about checklists

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It is great book! I have listen more than 300 books in last few years, and it is definetly 1 of top 10. And i will sugest it, to enyone who aske me for a great book!
I am a simple car mechanik and i use checklists ewery day, they wery often prewents us from disasters!
Thank you for book! 👍

Must listen or read 😉. For eny person.

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Brilliantly read with a strong msg. about our complex world and the fallibility of being human.

Brilliant story telling

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A follow up book retracting his misplaced trust and high praise for Boeing after the murderous 737 Max crashes would be a most appropriate sequel - getting to the core of the economic and corporate forces opposing the integrity of checklists.

Praise for Boeing’s checklists

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- This book looks how checklist can help save lives end or make our lives easier and more efficient as well as helping us not to miss things – whether it be surgery, building and architecture or just going on a family trip. The complexity of saving lives has become so complex with so many disorders and diseases that are used to kill people are now survivable only through painstaking medical care and complex nature of medicine and surgery. Having a procedure that helps people live longer lives and checklists can support this. One approach, which has been borrowed from aircraft technology and the improvement in people’s lives show that checklists can help us navigate complex procedures.
- Checklist originally came out from hospitals were an idea that came about from nurses and not doctors. Nurses would carry round index cards and make sure that they would cover 4 different vital signs and then added a fifth sign which was pain. By using checklist, they ensured people’s lives were saved and that they had better outcomes in leaving hospital. Yet, when nurses began using this checklist, it was found the savings to hospital costs and the outcomes to people lives in surviving treatments were phenomenal and made a massive difference to people being able to leave hospital at earlier times and saving significant costs.
- The problem with the human mind is that it's more interested in novelty and new experiences rather than the mundane and every day. We can be so easily distracted or just forget something that we might do even every day and I certainly know that I have used checklists when carrying out speech and language therapy assessment around babies and children with feeding and communication difficulties. I have found them invaluable.
- CREATING A CHECKLIST: They should be simple and include all steps that you might miss that are essential and not to be overlooked. They need to include where to go for further help and ensure that everyone working with you know what their roles are.
- This book looks at house checklist have helped people in finance, the building trade and in aviation, as well as in medicine. You might not learn the basics and how to create a checklist, but all the information is in here, and they are simple to do. They save lives and continue to do so, although many people choose not to use them and even then, they're can still be infallible. However, it's important to note that the human mind is easily distractible, this is out all sorts of essential details when carrying out tasks, and a check list is a useful and a useful tool to master and improving as your life and everyday world. The lessons in this book can be applied to all, and I'm a great believer in them.

Checklists are ace

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🔳Book
🔳Talked
🔳About
☑️Checklist
☑️Importance
❎Not how to make a useful Checklist for anything important

Checklists

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I've not been one to have a checklist or a to-do- list, so i find it really hard to discipline myself on most things. Yes I'm also of the generation that checklist is a non real productive systems. Just get it done!!!

I have thoroughly enjoyed the checklist concept/system to be one that I will not feel ashamed on using.

Some bits seemed long, but felt that it was prudent to explain the thought processes.

I would recommend this book on the bases that I have got over the stigma about "Checklist"

Hooray!! 😇👍🏽
Now I need help in creating a checklist with it being too long☹️

The Checklist Manifesto

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This book is about a simple idea which when implemented gives great return. Certainly a standout book from the 60 or so I've listened to on Audible.

great book,simple and well read

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