The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
Checklists: The Key to Smarter and Safer Work
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
1. Cognitive Offloading: Checklists help alleviate cognitive stress by offloading memory tasks to an external tool, allowing you to focus on execution rather than recollection.
2. Error Prevention: Even experts, like doctors and pilots, rely on checklists to avoid basic errors, demo
... See moreGood checklists, on the other hand, are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything—a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps—the ones that even the highly skilled professionals using them
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