by Atul Gawande
Gawande shows that even the most skilled professionals make avoidable errors, and a simple checklist catches what expertise misses. The power is ensuring critical steps are never skipped under pressure.
In this collection, The Checklist Manifesto references 1 other book and is cited by 2 other books.
It draws on The Mythical Man-Month.
It’s picked up by Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End and Buy Back Your Time.
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Gawande draws parallels with Brooks's Mythical Man-Month on coordination failures.
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Gawande extends his own Checklist Manifesto argument about manageing medical complexity, applying systematic thinking to end-of-life decisions where checklists alone cannot substitute for values conversations
Mentioned alongside Work the System as evidence that checklists and documented processes give entrepreneurs freedom. Martell argues that playbooks are the entrepreneurial equivalent of Gawande's surgical checklists.
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