Pilots have been using “pre-flight” checklists for decades. Even highly experienced pilots will still defer to checklists because the checklist is more reliable than your memory.
Seeing the success of checklists for pilots, surgeons have recently taken to using checklists as well. And the results are staggering.
According to one study, the simple use of checklists cut patient mortality rates nearly in half.
Can you incorporate checklists into your business?
I'm senior economist at Housing Matters, a Toronto-based not-for-profit YIMBY group. In addition to housing policy, I also like to read and write about intellectual property, money & banking, and methodology. Other random things I'm interested in include space, physics, 3D printing, entrepreneurship, the English language, and internet culture.
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