The Checklist Manifesto  (English, Microfilm, Gawande Atul)

This is a wonderful book . Atul Gawande a surgeon by profession has been a brilliant writer too. This is a practical book. necessary for all medical professionals in particular and other professionals too. Make a checklist brings accountability in our actions.. this is what the book tries to underscore. A very useful book. highly recommended.

Worth all the money I paid. No wonder Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla have recommended it in thier list if recommded books.

This book is worth reading. It illustrates the importance of using checklists in accomplishing our professional responsibilities. The author narrates his surgical experiences and the complex checklists used by pilots in aviation to establish the efficacy of using checklists. This is a good read for anyone, who is keen on doing a quality job or delivering/rendering a high-quality product or service as the case may be.

This book is good. His research was mostly confined to Pharmaceutical Industry as he is a doctor. But he gives examples from other industries like Construction, Hedge Funds, Aviation where checklists are part of their daily process. The best part of the book is his description of his collaboration with WHO to prepare a universal surgical checklist.

Below are some of the good excerpts which I noted down while I was reading this book

1. Why Checklist is needed: The fallibility of huma...

1. if you are going to read this book like a Novel you will get nothing out of this.
2. Don't expect anything magic will come from this book. you will not get a single thing which you didnt know
3. This has a very simple rule and in the meantime very powerful as well...keep track of your all(important) actvities in personal life or professional life

I have given 3 ratting because i had very expectation from this book. If you are not a very organized guy then this can be a life changer (ofcou...

I recently read the book ‘The Checklist Manifesto’ by Dr. Atul Gawande. A manifesto? A manifesto by a doctor??? I know answering a question in response to a question is not acceptable!
Manifesto by definition ‘means concept of a public declaration of policy’ and presenting this by a doctor seemed to be a bit skeptical…But I got the answers to my questions when I started reading the book. In this book he has discussed a solution to prevent simple mistakes to handle complexity, A CHECKLIST. Dr....

This is a book about common mistakes we make, not by not knowing things, but by oversight. Of course in certain spheres of life this avoidable mistakes could mean loss of life or limb. So the author argues his case about making sure that we don't miss what we know already. This he does by going in to high profile businesses like medicine, aviation and construction and comparing how these diverse profession deal with avoiding mistakes. He convinces you that something as simple as a check list ...