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 ...

Checklists are essential to tackling a project thoroughly and completely. They ensure there is process cohesion between parties who may be involved in completing them and, most importantly, that ...

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 ...

Our information and technology age certainly has its perks. Knowledge and resources are compounded at unprecedented levels. We’ve attained longer life expectancy supported by a plethora of medical ...

“It is common to misconceive how checklists function in complex lines of work. They are not comprehensive how-to guides … they are quick and simple tools aimed to buttress the skills of expert ...

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 ...

It’s a new year and time for everyone to update their emergency preparedness plan to be ready for a major power outage, winter weather and life-threatening event, experts say. Ready.gov has tips to ...