Superhuman
a checklist to get through anything
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Execution & Impact: You know what needs to be done now and what can wait, and you focus the team on the key priorities. You define progress and impact, measure them, and maximize results.
Michael Siliski • The Role of a Product Manager
“Checklist” routines for critical factors help - assuming I am competent enough to decide what factors are critical and that I can evaluate them
Peter Bevelin • A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory.
Atul Gawande • The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
You must define a clear pause point at which the checklist is supposed to be used (unless the moment is obvious, like when a warning light goes on or an engine fails). You must decide whether you want a DO-CONFIRM checklist or a READ-DO checklist.
Atul Gawande • The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory.
Atul Gawande • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
That routine requires balancing a number of virtues: freedom and discipline, craft and protocol, specialized ability and group collaboration. And for checklists to help achieve that balance, they have to take two almost opposing forms. They supply a set of checks to ensure the stupid but critical stuff is not overlooked, and they supply another set
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