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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande · 2 Jan 2009 · 182pp · 56,961 words

ALSO BY ATUL GAWANDE BETTER: A SURGEON’S NOTES ON PERFORMANCE COMPLICATIONS: A SURGEON’S NOTES ON AN IMPERFECT SCIENCE THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO ATUL GAWANDE THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO: HOW TO GET THINGS RIGHT METROPOLITAN BOOKS HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY NEW YORK Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company, LLC Publishers since 1866 175 Fifth

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FIRST TRY 6. THE CHECKLIST FACTORY 7. THE TEST 8. THE HERO IN THE AGE OF CHECKLISTS 9. THE SAVE NOTES ON SOURCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO INTRODUCTION I was chatting with a medical school friend of mine who is now a general surgeon in San Francisco. We were trading war stories

The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing

by Michael J. Mauboussin · 14 Jul 2012 · 299pp · 92,782 words

infection dropped nearly to zero.21 Pronovost's work on checklists was noticed by Atul Gawande, eventually prompting him to write a book called The Checklist Manifesto. In the book, Gawande looks at the use of checklists in various fields and provides some guidelines on how to write ones that are effective

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: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out (New York: Hudson Street Books, 2010). 22. Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009), 114–135. 23. Daniel Boorman, “Safety Benefits of Electronic Checklists: An Analysis of Commercial Transport

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(February 2008): 22–30; and Michael Shearn, The Investment Checklist: The Art of In-Depth Research (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2012). 25. Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, 114–135. 26. Pronovost and Vohr, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals, 175. 27. Steven Crist, “Crist on Value,” in Beyer et al., Bet with the Best

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, Atul. “The Checklist: If Something So Simple Can Transform Intensive Care, What Else Can It Do?” The New Yorker, December 10, 2007. Gawande, Atul. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009. Gawande, Atul. “Personal Best: Top Athletes and Singers Have Coaches. Should You?” The New Yorker

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts

by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind · 24 Aug 2015 · 742pp · 137,937 words

. 2013 <https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/improving-quality-of-life-for-people-with-long-term-conditions> (accessed 6 March 2015). 4 Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto (2010). 5 The OECD estimates that per capita visits to US doctors is 4 per annum (a 2010 figure). If US population is ~320 million

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e.g. Glasgow Herald, 18 Nov.1985, p. 15. 17 <http://www.ey.com> (accessed 23 March 2015). 18 Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto (2010), 34. 19 Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, 36. 20 See Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks—How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (2006). 21 <http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk

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a passion to cut costs. A more fundamental force has been at play here, well captured by the surgeon Atul Gawande, in his book The Checklist Manifesto: Here, then, is our situation at the start of the 21st century: We have accumulated stupendous know-how. We have put it in the hands

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Richard Susskind, The End of Lawyers? (2008), ch. 2. 8 See previous reference in Ch. 2, n. 252. 9 Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto (2010), 13. 10 Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, 19. 11 See e.g. James Boyle, The Public Domain (2010). 12 Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas (2001), 20. 13 Elinor Ostrom

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but Fragile’, Daedalus, 134: 3 (2005), 13–18. Garreau, Joel, Radical Evolution (New York: Doubleday, 2004). Gawande, Atul, Better (London: Profile, 2007). Gawande, Atul, The Checklist Manifesto (London: Profile Books, 2010). Gawande, Atul, ‘Big Med’, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2012. Gawande, Atul, Being Mortal (London: Profile Books, 2014). General Medical Council, ‘2014

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

by Timothy Ferriss · 6 Dec 2016 · 669pp · 210,153 words

of left field (e.g., books → startups). Checklists Ramit and I are both obsessed with checklists and love a book by Atul Gawande titled The Checklist Manifesto. I have this book on a shelf in my living room, cover out, as a constant reminder. Atul Gawande is also one of Malcolm Gladwell

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Girl; The Russia House; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (John le Carré), The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis), The Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande), all of Lee Child’s books Godin, Seth: Makers; Little Brother (Cory Doctorow), Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud), Snow Crash; The Diamond Age (Neal

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Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (David Allen), The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Stephen R. Covey), The Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande) McGonigal, Jane: Finite and Infinite Games (James Carse), Suffering Is Optional (Cheri Huber), The Willpower Instinct (Kelly McGonigal), The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and

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Toad (James Oroc) Poliquin, Charles: The ONE Thing (Gary Keller and Jay Papasan), 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute (Richard Wiseman), The Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande), Bad Science (Ben Goldacre), Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School—But Didn’t (Peter McWilliams) Popova, Maria

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Relationship at a Time (Keith Ferrazzi), What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School (Mark H. McCormack), Iacocca: An Autobiography (Lee Iacocca), The Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande) Shinoda, Mike: Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison (Joe Calloway), The Tipping Point; Blink (Malcolm Gladwell

The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

by Josh Kaufman · 2 Feb 2011 · 624pp · 127,987 words

. In 2001, a study on the effects of Checklisting was conducted by Dr. Peter Pronovost, which was described in detail in Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto and in an article Gawande published in the New Yorker. 2 The study was conducted in a hospital in Detroit that had the highest rate

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

by Robert Wachter · 7 Apr 2015 · 309pp · 114,984 words

it’s like to practice medicine in the midst of a painful, historic, and often dangerous transition.” —Atul Gawande author of Being Mortal and The Checklist Manifesto “As scientific breakthroughs and information technology transform the practice of medicine, Bob Wachter is one of the few people with the insight, credibility, and investigative

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yet … and yet, as I reflect on the complexity of the problem, my instincts tell me that Khosla might not quite get it. In The Checklist Manifesto, the author and surgeon Atul Gawande recounted a study that vividly illustrates this complexity. In a single year, the trauma centers in the state of

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“It collected 19 million data points on me” Interview of Vinod Khosla by the author, April 29, 2014. 121 In The Checklist Manifesto, the author and surgeon A. Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009). 122 Gawande described the findings to me Interview of Atul Gawande by

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The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

by Guy Spier · 8 Sep 2014 · 240pp · 73,209 words

became intrigued by what we were doing. He interviewed Mohnish and me, and he wrote a few pages about us in his 2009 bestseller The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Among other things, he mentioned Mohnish’s realization that he had “repeatedly erred” in underestimating the riskiness of leveraged companies

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Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors

by Wesley R. Gray and Tobias E. Carlisle · 29 Nov 2012 · 263pp · 75,455 words

: intensivists need checklists to walk them step-by-step through the complex ICU processes. Gawande eventually turned his article into the best-selling book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,16. which argues for a broader implementation of checklists. Gawande believes that in many fields, the problem is not a

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.” The New Yorker, Annals of Medicine (December 10, 2007); www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=2. 16. Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009). PART TWO Margin of Safety—How to Avoid a Permanent Loss of Capital In Part

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Wait: The Art and Science of Delay

by Frank Partnoy · 15 Jan 2012 · 342pp · 94,762 words

are like routine fastballs. But he also has to be ready to hit the one curve. In Atul Gawande’s provocative and insightful book The Checklist Manifesto, he shows how doctors can use checklists to save lives by reducing mistakes in medical decision-making, particularly during hospital surgery.12 He also advocates

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. 46. 11. Jerome Kassirer, John Wong, and Richard Kopelman, Learning Clinical Reasoning, 2nd ed. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010), p. xvii–xviii. 12. Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Picador, 2009). 13. Ibid., p. 154. 14. The concept of a diagnostic time-out is raised in John W. Ely

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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

by Nicholas Carr · 28 Sep 2014 · 308pp · 84,713 words

process. They bring order to complicated and sometimes chaotic circumstances. But as the surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande explained in his book The Checklist Manifesto, the “virtues of regimentation” don’t negate the need for “courage, wits, and improvisation.” The best clinicians will always be distinguished by their “expert audacity

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Decision Support and the Law: The Big Picture,” Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law and Policy 5 (2012): 319–324. 24.Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (New York: Henry Holt, 2010), 161–162. 25.Lown and Rodriguez, “Lost in Translation?” 26.Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think

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