The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right By: Atul Gawande

Author: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

The New York Times best-selling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist.

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies – neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple 90-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.

In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.

An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential for anyone working to get things right.

528K	00 - Audible Intro.mp3
22M	01 - Introduction.mp3
33M	02 - Chapter 1. The Problem of Extreme Complexity.mp3
29M	03 - Chapter 2. The Checklist.mp3
44M	04 - Chapter 3. The End of the Master Builder.mp3
25M	05 - Chapter 4. The Idea.mp3
49M	06 - Chapter 5. The First Try.mp3
38M	07 - Chapter 6. The Checklist Factory.mp3
39M	08 - Chapter 7. The Test.mp3
52M	09 - Chapter 8. The Hero in the Age of Checklists.mp3
12M	10 - Chapter 9. The Save.mp3
748K	11 - Outro.mp3
164K	The Checklist Manifesto.jpg
341M	total