Book #117 |
Book: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right | Author: Atul Gawande | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 208 | Duration: 11/30/25 – 11/30/25 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: nonfiction, business, productivity, medicine, science, psychology, self help | ||
| 📕10-word summary: How checklists help multiple disciplines — with simple, complicated, complex tasks. 🖌6-word review: Orgasmic for checklist, to-do list nerds. |
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| 💭An interesting quote: “The volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: Many aviation, construction, and medical terms, procedure, and process names | |||
| Description:* 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 disaster response 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.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I am a to-do list (which is a type of checklist) whore, right up there with being a spreadsheet whore. I loved this book because it shows how something as simple as a checklist can save time, money, and actual lives in various disciplines, such as medicine, aviation, skyscraper construction, & finance. Beyond explaining how, it talks about the research that has gone into devising effective checklists, and testing done to test and refine checklists once devised. The descriptions of how complex the tasks can be in all of those disciplines is both fascinating and mindboggling. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
