The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande (2009, Hardcover)

Synopsis
As a renowned surgeon, bestselling author, and popular journalist for The New Yorker, Atul Gawande (BETTER) obviously knows something about managing individual success, but here he focuses on the key to team success, which can be achieved with a simple piece of paper and pencil. Gawande has witnessed firsthand how mandatory checklists have drastically reduced mistakes and oversights in the medical industry, and he uses anecdotes from his own research and experience to outline how these simple organizational tools can be used to improve performance in any field or endeavor.

Key Details
Author:	Atul Gawande
Language:	English
Publisher:	Metropolitan Books
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	0805091742
ISBN-13:	9780805091748

Additional Details
Edition Number:	1

Size
Length:	209 pages
Thickness:	0.8 in
Weight:	12 oz

Publisher's Note
Explains how simple checklists have prompted striking and immediate improvements in surgical and hospital settings, then goes beyond the field of medicine to explore how checklists have improved everything from homeland security to investment banking.

The best-selling author of Better and Complications draws from his surgical experience to explain how simple checklists have prompted striking and immediate improvements in surgical and hospital settings, then goes beyond the field of medicine to explore how checklists have improved everything from homeland security to investment banking.

Industry Reviews
"For too long, medicine has been insulated from the kinds of quality and process improvement that's become standard in all kinds of industries. In calling attention to the power of checklists, Gawande argues convincingly and eloquently for doctors to learn from others. After all, our lives may depend on it."
(01/15/2010)

"This is a brilliant book about an idea so simple it sounds dumb until you hear the case for it. Atul Gawande presents an argument so strong that I challenge anyone to go away from this book unconvinced....[He] has written a short, readable, sensible book and is highly recommended."
(01/07/2010)

"Sometimes a deeply complex problem has a deceptively simple answer. That is the underlying message of Atul Gawande's THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, which explains how a short, straightforward medical checklist can greatly reduce the chances of failure in life-or-death situations....Thoughtfully written and soundly defended, this book calls for medical professionals to improve patient care by adopting a basic, common-sense approach."

"Gawande...makes the case that checklists can help us manage the extreme complexity of the modern world....This is an important insight....THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO is an essential primer on complexity in medicine."
(01/24/2010)

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