In the ten years since Dr. Atul Gawande published The Checklist Manifesto, the use of checklists has proliferated in fields from medicine to investing. Gawande, a surgeon, made a particular focus on ...

Doctors introduced the concept of checklists to help focus fatigued and distracted healthcare workers. They now play a large role in reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAI), according to an ...

My 2023 updated Word file of checklists is now available. There are 145 tax, practice management and personal tip checklists and a Getting Your Affairs in Order Tool Kit with 25 added checklists. They ...

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Many of us have repetitive tasks to complete. Often we find that if we don’t have any guidance, we may forget certain steps in a process. Sometimes even with simple steps involved we can get ...

Electrical issues were the second leading cause of home fires between 2012 and 2016, according to the National Fire Protection Association -- and there's little evidence that the trend has changed.

If checklists with a simple mandate like “wash your hands” can keep scores of hospital patients from dying, imagine what they can do to improve your business outcomes. Scott Jacobson, president of ...

In the wake of Johns Hopkins' success in virtually eliminating intensive-care unit bloodstream infections via a simple five-step checklist, the safety scientist who developed and popularized the tool ...

When to use paper checklists, versus digital checklists, depends on circumstances, and the people involved in a task. For example, when multiple people collaborate in processing a job, task, or ...

We all should use checklists more. That’s true even if you’re one of the many people who think checklists are too rigid, too confining. You won’t feel confined. Knowing you’ll remember everything will ...

As an advisor, you deal with complexity on a day-to-day basis. You’re managing investments, financial plans, client emotions, team dynamics, administrative paperwork, compliance and more. You can’t ...

My updated Word file of checklists is now available. There are 190 tax season, practice management and personal tips checklists on 328 pages in a usable searchable Word format. I added 12 checklists ...