Checklists Can Save Lives…and Businesses

Doctor uses 5-step checklists…and enforcement…to cut infection rates to zero.  And he gets a Mcarthur Fellowship $1,000.000 genius grant.

No reason your business can’t get a similar breakthough, if not the $1 million, according to Entrepreneur magazine (http://bit.ly/nADzT1), by following a few simple list-making rules:

• Target underperforming areas
• Set improvement benchmarks
• Document the sequence of tasks
• Prioritize tasks & identify the essential ones
• Identify necessary decision or judgment
• Implement the checklist & measure results
• Make a checklist for checklist updates