In the ten years since Dr. Atul Gawande published The Checklist Manifesto, the use of checklists has proliferated in fields from medicine to investing. Gawande, a surgeon, made a particular focus on ...

Atul Gawande’s book The Checklist Manifesto is a best seller. In it, the author, who is also a medical doctor, discusses the value of creating checklists for a huge range of tasks, from disaster ...

When you have a stressful job like a doctor or a pilot, you’re faced with executing complex tasks everyday with very high rates of success. How do such professionals even get started when the task at ...

My first question when considering any investment is fairly simple: "Would I want my wife to own this if I were dead?" Kind of morbid, but it keeps me focused on what's really important. I invest to ...

Decision-making overload is a common experience among managers. But you can process choices more efficiently and achieve better outcomes by using a checklist: Write down five company goals that will ...

Advocates and evangelists for globally integrating your operations often provide a tall order for changing how you do business. Some have grandiose, utopian schemes of how global synergies can be ...

There's no doubt about it: looking around a messy, cluttered home can make it hard to know where to start when decluttering is your goal. Maybe the amount of possessions you own has gradually ...

For example, some checklists are like grocery lists, a basic catalog of what needs to be accomplished by just one person in order for a process or procedure to be completed properly. In an operating ...

Now that a new year has arrived, for many, it may signal a time to finally tackle some of those long-held-off projects around the house. In general, when it comes to your home, there are maintenance ...

In the wake of Johns Hopkins' success in virtually eliminating intensive-care unit bloodstream infections via a simple five-step checklist, the safety scientist who developed and popularized the tool ...