--- product_id: 237721 title: "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right" price: "€ 54.91" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/237721-the-checklist-manifesto-how-to-get-things-right store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # WHO surgical checklist adopted in 20+ countries Top #1 in Family Practice & Hospital Admin 15,000+ 4.5-star reviews The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right **Price:** € 54.91 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > ✅ Simplify complexity, master your workflow 🌟 ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - **How much does it cost?** € 54.91 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/237721-the-checklist-manifesto-how-to-get-things-right) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Proven Global Impact:** Learn from real-world success stories, including WHO’s life-saving surgical checklist used worldwide. - • **Cross-Industry Relevance:** From healthcare to aviation and finance, unlock strategies that elevate any professional field. - • **Engaging & Insightful Read:** Absorb compelling narratives that make complex ideas accessible and actionable. - • **Boost Your Professional Edge:** Adopt a mindset that reduces errors, enhances efficiency, and drives consistent success. - • **Master Complexity with Simplicity:** Discover how a simple checklist can transform chaotic workflows into flawless execution. ## Overview Atul Gawande’s bestselling book reveals how the humble checklist is a powerful tool to combat errors in complex professional environments. Backed by global adoption and thousands of positive reviews, it offers practical insights to improve performance across industries, making it essential reading for managers and professionals aiming to elevate their impact. ## Description In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry—in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people—consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can’t, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds. And the insights are making a difference. Already, a simple surgical checklist from the World Health Organization designed by following the ideas described here has been adopted in more than twenty countries as a standard for care and has been heralded as “the biggest clinical invention in thirty years” ( The Independent ). Review: Surprisingly engaging read! - It's a little strange to say that I enjoyed a book about checklists, but it was great. The author's stories are meaningful and memorable, which made it a fast, engaging read. The case for using checklists is laid out convincingly, and it made me think about which of my workflows would benefit from having an associated checklist. Review: Simply Inspirational: "Less is more. Keep it simple." - The KISS principle states that simplicity should be a key goal in design, and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided. When translated, KISS stands for "keep it short and simple." There are few authors today that are willing to tell the truth and be objective, while still maintaining credibility. I would like to address Atul Gawande's most recent entry and classic, "The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right." Gawande is also the author of Better and Complications, a general and endocrine surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, and leads the World Health Organization's Safe Surgery Saves Lives program. Quite an impressive resume Mr. Gawande has there; however, his ego never gets to him. His "down-to-earth" approach to the implementation of checklists is wholly inspirational. In The Checklist Manifesto, Gawande attempts to redefine society's mentality through his ability to write cleverly and eloquently while being objective and straight to the point. He supports his in-depth research and provides a variety of careers and fields where a simple checklist can be implemented. In fact, it works. Gawande establishes his cleverness and objectiveness early in the The Checklist Manifesto. He talks about a true story of how an anesthesiologist used the wrong concentration of potassium that he'd intended. In fact, the anesthesiologist used "a concentration one hundred times higher" (Gawande 6). The team did everything they could to try to stabilize the patient: "The surgical team was so shaken they weren't sure they could finish the operation. They'd not only nearly killed the man but also failed to recognize how. They did finish the procedure though" (Gawande 7). Now, you may be sitting there thinking "Why would it matter if they made a mistake? As long as the surgical team was able to save the patient, then it shouldn't matter, right?" Let me ask you this question: "Are we to rely on luck over and over again?" This was just one patient and a simple mistake almost killed the patient. By spending a few seconds (or even minutes) looking over and using a checklist, you can substantially minimize potential mistakes. Gawande also tells the reader of an instance in aviation where a Delta Air Lines flight from Shanghai to Atlanta with 247 people aboard almost crashed on November 26, 2008. The engine failed because of icy conditions. The pilot and copilot "got out their checklist and followed the lessons it offered" (Gawande 135). Because of what they did, the engine recovered and all 247 people were saved. "If you were having an operation, would you want the checklist to be used? A full 93 percent said yes" (Gawande 157). This was a survey taken by medical professionals. Gawande is consistent in being clever throughout The Checklist Manifesto and never loses his focus on the importance of checklists. Gawande is able to capture medicine in all of its complex and chaotic glory. He inspires all of us, doctor or not, to lose our ego, implement a simple checklist, and be better. Less is more. Keep it simple. I highly recommend The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande to any reader because it can apply to the lives of just about anyone. Gene ## Features - Great book. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #6,525 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Family Practice Medicine #1 in Hospital Administration (Books) #4 in Pathology Clinical Chemistry (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,151 Reviews | ## Images ![The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61JiWnh3scL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Surprisingly engaging read! *by L***. on June 5, 2026* It's a little strange to say that I enjoyed a book about checklists, but it was great. The author's stories are meaningful and memorable, which made it a fast, engaging read. The case for using checklists is laid out convincingly, and it made me think about which of my workflows would benefit from having an associated checklist. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Simply Inspirational: "Less is more. Keep it simple." *by G***K on March 24, 2010* The KISS principle states that simplicity should be a key goal in design, and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided. When translated, KISS stands for "keep it short and simple." There are few authors today that are willing to tell the truth and be objective, while still maintaining credibility. I would like to address Atul Gawande's most recent entry and classic, "The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right." Gawande is also the author of Better and Complications, a general and endocrine surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, and leads the World Health Organization's Safe Surgery Saves Lives program. Quite an impressive resume Mr. Gawande has there; however, his ego never gets to him. His "down-to-earth" approach to the implementation of checklists is wholly inspirational. In The Checklist Manifesto, Gawande attempts to redefine society's mentality through his ability to write cleverly and eloquently while being objective and straight to the point. He supports his in-depth research and provides a variety of careers and fields where a simple checklist can be implemented. In fact, it works. Gawande establishes his cleverness and objectiveness early in the The Checklist Manifesto. He talks about a true story of how an anesthesiologist used the wrong concentration of potassium that he'd intended. In fact, the anesthesiologist used "a concentration one hundred times higher" (Gawande 6). The team did everything they could to try to stabilize the patient: "The surgical team was so shaken they weren't sure they could finish the operation. They'd not only nearly killed the man but also failed to recognize how. They did finish the procedure though" (Gawande 7). Now, you may be sitting there thinking "Why would it matter if they made a mistake? As long as the surgical team was able to save the patient, then it shouldn't matter, right?" Let me ask you this question: "Are we to rely on luck over and over again?" This was just one patient and a simple mistake almost killed the patient. By spending a few seconds (or even minutes) looking over and using a checklist, you can substantially minimize potential mistakes. Gawande also tells the reader of an instance in aviation where a Delta Air Lines flight from Shanghai to Atlanta with 247 people aboard almost crashed on November 26, 2008. The engine failed because of icy conditions. The pilot and copilot "got out their checklist and followed the lessons it offered" (Gawande 135). Because of what they did, the engine recovered and all 247 people were saved. "If you were having an operation, would you want the checklist to be used? A full 93 percent said yes" (Gawande 157). This was a survey taken by medical professionals. Gawande is consistent in being clever throughout The Checklist Manifesto and never loses his focus on the importance of checklists. Gawande is able to capture medicine in all of its complex and chaotic glory. He inspires all of us, doctor or not, to lose our ego, implement a simple checklist, and be better. Less is more. Keep it simple. I highly recommend The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande to any reader because it can apply to the lives of just about anyone. Gene ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Getting the Steps Right is Hard" *by J***D on February 8, 2013* Atul Gawande is a physician interested in improving surgical practice. He reviews surgical cases with disastrous outcomes that could have been prevented and cites research claiming that nearly half of deaths that occur in surgery are in fact preventable. We read a detailed analysis of a drowning accident in which the young victim's life was saved against all odds. Why? Because the hospital staff had discussed and practiced the procedures to treat cold-water drowning ahead of time. They used no new knowledge; they just coordinated and communicated more effectively. Gawande examines how human beings do things. There are two reasons we fail at complex tasks. The first is ignorance. We correct it by conducting research and building schools to increase our knowledge. The second and more common reason for failure is ineptitude--the right knowledge is available, but we do not apply it correctly. People continually forget, are distracted, or skip steps because they seem unimportant. This problem lurks below the radar; we don't recognize it, let alone try to solve it. Instead we send people off for more training to increase their knowledge. What is needed instead is a simple way to remind people of what they know at the right time to make a difference. We have an answer, we just aren't using it. "Checklists seem to provide protection against such failures. They remind us of the minimum necessary steps and make them explicit. They not only offer the possibility of verification, but also instill a kind of discipline of higher performance." The author examines checklists used by airline pilots, building contractors, investors and other physicians. In these professions work has become too complex for even a talented individual to perform alone. Teams of skilled experts must manage both communication and complexity to succeed. They do both with checklists. These checklists make people stop and think at "pause points" to ensure that the right things have been done. They get coworkers to bond as a team by requiring them to talk to each other. As a result, people become comfortable enough to speak up when they see a potential problem. Chapter Six, The Checklist Factory is the instructional meat of the book, with recommendations that help us develop good checklists. There are direct guidelines about brevity and clarity. There are also process guidelines about identifying common mistakes and fine-tuning a checklist with field testing. He distinguishes between READ-DO checklists, which march novices through the tightly specified steps of rote tasks, and DO-CONFIRM checklists, which provide checkpoints for experienced professionals solving complex problems in coordinated groups. Both have their place, but DO-CONFIRM checklists have the most potential to make a difference. There are barriers to checklist use. They have a serious user acceptance problem. Many accomplished professionals consider themselves virtuosos who don't need help from other people at all, let alone somebody else's checklist. To many others checklists seem too mundane to make a difference. The author works hard to persuade us. His own research on checklists in operating rooms finds significant drops in death rates, post-operative infections, and other outcome measures. He highlights successes at prominent hospitals to encourage wider acceptance, asks administrators to impose requirements, and calls on nurses to help change the culture of the operating room. The idea is slowly catching on. Gawande wishes we would move more quickly. "In the money business everyone looks for an edge. If someone is doing well, people pounce like starved hyenas to find out how. Almost every idea for making even slightly more money ... gets sucked up by the giant maw almost instantly. Every idea, that is except one: checklists." I learned some things from this book and highly recommend it. Give it at least a quick look, starting with Chapter 6. It has the potential to make you even better at what you do best. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Workbook For The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande: 54 Exercises for Implementing The Checklist Manifesto Principles for Success - Being Mortal --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/237721-the-checklist-manifesto-how-to-get-things-right](https://www.desertcart.be/products/237721-the-checklist-manifesto-how-to-get-things-right) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-08-23*