The Fortune500 favorite bestsellers checklist: 1) choose a particularly self evident good practice; 2) gather recent studies and anecdotes where common sense gave immense returns; 3) sprinkle some storytelling as if the findings were groundbreaking; 4) oversell the awesomeness of this one simple thing that everyone could start doing.

Maybe it’s because I started out my professional studies in the biomed fields and moved to STEM, but I’m not impressed with doctors discovering that following a checklist improves their performance. The book reads like the author is really really proud of bringing his interdisciplinary learnings into surgery practices. That’s nice, we need more of that. Can’t say I learned anything meaningful from the book other than that doctors have an attitude problem… wait I also knew that.