Reviews for The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

The average rating for The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-03-01 00:00:00 Nicolas Dawson The Checklist Manifesto is not as helpful as Gawande's previous books - especially Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance which improved my business quite a bit with the injunction to 'count something' (so we did, everything, and saw the patterns. You should see my spreadsheets now! (Just as an aside, as an artist I am good at statistics I can see the patterns. Can't do maths though, never even got to GCSE level on that). Where this book really made a difference is in operating theatres. They are now run like airplanes. First there is a very short briefing where any of the team can say anything without regard to status, and then there are the checklists to make sure that all eventualities, equipment and item retrieval - swabs put into your body are supposed to be counted and then accounted for at the end. Gawande is so easy to read because he mixes his advice with proof and anecdotes, some of them personal. These sort of books, regardless of the subject are almost a genre in themselves. Think: Oliver Sacks for neurology and Jon Ronson for somewhat scandalous pop culture, but there are many more. Very enjoyable, light, non-fiction. Recommended for people who are allergic to self-help books (me) but work in a complex industry and would like some advice that doesn't look like it because as Oscar Wilde said, "The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." Read March 3, 2011. Review rewritten Dec. 15th, 2015

Review # 2 was written on 2020-10-11 00:00:00 Jose A. Sierra A splendid little thing by a surgeon who extrapolates general problem-solving solutions from a variety of specific, technical examples.