The Checklist Manifesto - Summarized for Busy People: How to Get Things Right: Based on the Book by Atul Gawande

By Goldmine Reads

This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.

How powerful and influential can a checklist be?

Atul Gawande's book, The Checklist Manifesto introduces the checklist: a modified solution to help professionals absorb and master how they execute certain essential tasks that define their responsibilities in their respective industries. Present-day roles in the industry are more intricate in nature, prompting more rigorous training and technology at a more advanced level. However, training and technological advancement are simply not always sufficient.

Gawande's alternative and simplistic solution is based on a checklist that was originally introduced by the American Air Force. This checklist served as a guide to help pilots in maneuvering sophisticated types of aircrafts. 

Modified into an innovative checklist that suits modern-day industries and professions, it became an effective tool that equipped doctors and nurses worldwide in delivering quick, complete and professional response to all types of accidents and calamities.

Aside from the healthcare industry, Gawande's checklist eventually benefitted businesses such as skyscraper construction and investment banking, along with life-saving protocols involved in disaster response procedures. From Austria to Michigan, real-life accounts of how the checklist has been tremendously helpful are disclosed. These accounts include how an emergency checklist was a key factor in saving a drowning patient who had been submerged underwater for approximately 30 minutes; as well how a cleanliness checklist implemented in intensive care units was instrumental in eradicating a life-threatening infection commonly contracted in hospitals.

Gawande, a public health researcher, surgeon and writer, further explains the way checklists trigger urgent and outstanding progress especially in professions where time, precision and efficiency are crucial.

The struggle is over for the hardworking workforce of today's industries. The Checklist Manifesto is the perfect book for people striving to reach the level of competence needed in executing the undertakings that come with their job.

Intrigued by the hidden influence that checklists possess? Waste no more time and grab a copy of this book now!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Goldmine Reads
• Release date: Oct 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393691358

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INTRODUCTION

Responsibilities and even a person’s survival that depend mainly on maintaining and implementing a controlled and organized set of procedures can be susceptible to dire consequences when struck with an unexpected turn of events. A good example of this is how a general surgeon in San Francisco almost lost a patient who suffered from a stab wound. The surgeon failed to conduct a basic, preliminary assessment of the object that was used to puncture his patient’s body. He instead administered treatment meant for a superficial injury. The insufficient treatment he provided almost cost his patient’s life.

Situations like this are accurate manifestations of how the lack of control, physical and mental preparedness, and understanding of one’s undertakings and objectives often lead to failure. Even with things and situations that can easily be held under control, failure is still inevitable. That is, when ignorance or the inadequate level of understanding resulting from limited knowledge is present. Within the context of this book, ignorance is also otherwise referred to as ineptitude, or the inability to put into practice one’s available knowledge as