The Checklist Manifesto

In The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande describes the surprising power of the checklist in our increasingly complicated world. His examples, from performing surgery to flying an airplane or building a skyscraper, illustrate how listing critical steps, working as a team, and scheduling communication at crucial points can dramatically improve the outcome of complex tasks. Far from a self-help book, this is an absorbing read...Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Outliers) says of The Checklist Manifesto, "It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking."

Atul Gawande is a surgeon, Harvard professor, and staff writer for The New Yorker. The Checklist Manifesto is available in print at the SPL and on CD through interlibrary loan.