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Checklists

Atul Gawande: The Building Industry’s Strategy for Getting Things Right in Complexity

Checklists establish a higher level of baseline performance. *** A useful reminder from Atul Gawande, in The Checklist Manifesto: In a complex environment, experts are up against two main …

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Miracles Happen — The Simple Heuristic That Saved 150 Lives

“In an uncertain world, statistical thinking and risk communication alone are not sufficient. Good rules of thumb are essential for good decisions.” *** Three minutes after taking off from …

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Atul Gawande. A reader recently pointed out that I hadn’t covered his most recent book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I had …

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The Psychology Of The To-Do List

Ten years after David Allen’s bestselling productivity book Getting Things Done, scientific research caught up. We now know why the popular system is so effective. The key behind GTD is writing …

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Michael Mauboussin: Two Tips to Improve The Quality of Your Decisions

Michael Mauboussin, chief investment strategist at Legg Mason and our first interview on the podcast, offers two simple techniques to improve the quality of your decision making: a decision journal …

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A Simple Checklist to Improve Decisions

We owe thanks to the publishing industry. Their ability to take a concept and fill an entire category with a shotgun approach is the reason that more people are talking about biases. Unfortunately, …

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