What does education policy have in common with Van Halen? No, it's not the band's 1984 hit "Hot for Teacher." It is something far less sexy: complexity. As we learned from Atul Gawande's book "The ...

I recently picked up a copy of Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right after New York University’s Kristen Smith recommended it in The Chronicle of Higher Education. I’ve been ...

In The Checklist Manifesto, Harvard surgeon and New Yorker contributor Atul Gawande shows the device’s power to reduce surgical complications by making sure sound protocols are followed. Gawande sees ...

In The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, surgeon Atul Gawande argues that one of the most basic organizational tools -- the simple checklist -- can improve the effectiveness of teams and ...