Atul Gawande wrote a book about how to create and use checklists.
It’s 224 pages long and runs to 53,505 words.
It has 3,901 4/5 star reviews on Amazon.
Obviously, he went further than showing you how to write a better grocery list!
Because it turns out that SIMPLE checklists are kinda important.
As in …
They help surgeons save lives in hospitals.
They help pilots safely bring down jumbo jets in trouble.
They help Warren and Charlie make Hathaway Investments achieve legendry returns.
If you looked at all of these checklists, you’ll see that they are surprisingly SIMPLE.
For example: an operating theatre checklist saves lives SIMPLY by checking to see that everyone about to be involved in the operation has introduced themselves to each other by name.
Why is that so important? I’ll not tell you here.
That would just give you a good story to pass along to your buddies over a beer at the weekend 🙂
Instead, you should go ahead and get a copy of ‘The Checklist Manifesto’.
And then get to work on creating SIMPLE checklists for your business to ensure that …
What people know should get done, actually does get done.
Every time.
