Atul Gawande

how to get things right

The checklist manifesto

Aamna

I have developed a lot of respect for Gawande in the past year. Love his interdisciplinary tendencies & writing style.

An outstanding book, which I ended up picking at a great time. This will stick.

Julien Sobczak

Simple techniques can produce huge results. But more often than not, simple techniques are easy to explain but hard to put into practice efficiently. A checklist is definitely one of these techniques.

The book follows the reflection of a surgeon on using checklists like aviation pilots use them. The book follows how the idea grew inside the author's mind, which means the pace of the book is sometimes slow. For sure, you can easily sum up the book in a few pages but getting into details contributes a lot in appreciating the subtleties of using a checklist that really works in practice. (The number of complications after surgery dropped nearly by half everywhere such a "simple" technique was applied!)

As a surgeon, the author focuses on using checklists in the operation room but the reflection will help you apply the knowledge in other domains where teamwork and preventing errors is essential. As brilliantly illustrated through real-world use cases, checklists are cheap but surprisingly effective. Checklists will make your team more efficient without necessarily being more skillful.

Sarah Schumacher

If you're looking for a how-to guide, this is not it (with the exception of Chapter 6).

It's about the need for checklists and a culture of teamwork in a technologically complex world. He draws heavily from the practices and examples of airline pilots, which he applies mostly to surgery. There is a brief discussion of government application (natural disasters) and investing as well.

As a professional list maker, I did not need convinced of the effectiveness of checklists, so I didn't get a whole lot from this book. I think the most interesting thing was considering the (American?) ideal of an independent hero who knows all and gets it done on his own, vs the real world necessity of a team working in unison.

I hope things have changed in the 8 years since he wrote this book, but this would still be a recommended read for those in the medical field.

Matthew Royal

One big idea: make simple checklists for important, but easy to forget processes. It'll reduce your errors, and free up your brain to think about the harder parts of the problems you're solving.

I'd have rated it higher if there were more guidance on how much is "enough" in writing a good checklist, or if it were even shorter. Gawande goes back and forth between medicine and aviation in his examples, and he could perhaps consolidate the narratives a bit better.

Irene Alegre

It's not a bad book... but it's not a good book. I rarely come across books where I think 'Watching the 30 min presentation on this would have been enough' or 'Looking for a book summary would have sufficed', but I found myself thinking this over and over. 

Read it line by line up to 40%, skimmed all the way to 60% and skipped the last few chapters. I did read the last one, which was just a few more paragraphs on how great checklists are, except for when they're not. But they're mostly great and everyone in every industry should use them.

Jon Dubielzyk

This is one of those books that feels like it should've been one long-ish article. It spends the first few chapters on the concept of the checklist, then the remaining 70% on stories as to why the checklist is great. Don't get me wrong, the concept is good and some of the stories are quite memorable, but ultimately it felt like a bit of a chore to get through the book.

Daha uzun süre eğitim görüyor, daha fazla uzmanlaşıyor, daha ileri teknoloji kullanıyor ama yine de hata yapıyoruz. Ve bunun nedeni son derece basit: artık sahip olduğumuz bilgi hacmi ve karmaşıklık düzeyi, bireyler olarak bu bilgiyi tutarlı, doğru ve güvenli biçimde iletme becerimizi aşmış durumda.

Time dergisi tarafından 2010'da dünyanın en etkili 100 insanı arasında gösterilen Atul Gawande, daha iyisini başarabileceğimiz görüşünü savunuyor ve çözüm olarak bize olabilecek en mütevazı yolu gösteriyor: kontrol listesi. Gawande, gerçek hayattan akıl almaz öyküler eşliğinde, kontrol listelerinin, uçakları uçurmaktan ileri derecede incelikli teknik gerektiren gökdelenler inşa etmeye dek, yaptığımız en zor işlerden bazılarını nasıl altından kalkılabilir hale getirdiğini açıklıyor. Kendi deneyimine dayanarak, doksan saniyelik bir kontrol listesinin, dünyanın dört bir yanındaki sekiz hastanede, hemen bütün cerrahi girişim türlerinde, ölümleri ve komplikasyonları, ek maliyet getirmeksizin, üçte biri aşan oranda azaltmayı nasıl başarabildiğini gözler önüne seriyor.

Checklist Manifesto, yaşamımızdaki karmaşıklığın doğasını irdeleyen, merak ettiren ve eyleme geçirten bir kitap. İşini doğru yapmak isteyen herkes için...

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Checklist Manifesto

Hüseyin Dereli

Listelerin gücüne ikna etmeyi başarıyor. Kolay okunuyor fakat daha kısa olabilirdi. 

Hikayeden çok araştırmayı anlatmaya odaklanması ya da hikayeleştirdiği kısımları sadeleştirmesi güzel olabilirdi.

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