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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right is a December 2009 non-fiction book by Atul Gawande. It was released on December 22, 2009, through Metropolitan Books and focuses on the use of checklists in relation to several elements of daily and professional life. [ 1 ]
In general, a checklist is a quality management tool, an aid to completing a complex task correctly and completely. It is an aid to recall, provides a reminder of the correct sequence, and uses the operator's knowledge and skill efficiently to ensure that no critical steps are omitted, even when the operator is under stress or has degraded attention due to fatigue or other distractions, It ...
In business and project management, a responsibility assignment matrix [1] (RAM), also known as RACI matrix [2] (/ ˈ r eɪ s i /; responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed) [3] [4] or linear responsibility chart [5] (LRC), is a model that describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables [4] for a project ...
A worker–machine activity chart is a chart used to describe or plan the interactions between workers and machines over time. [1] As the name indicates, the chart deals with the criteria of work elements and their time for both the worker and the machine. This chart is useful to describe any repetitive worker-machine system.
[5] [6] This chart was drawn by George Holt Henshaw. [7] The term "organization chart" came into use in the early twentieth century. In 1914 Brinton [8] declared "organization charts are not nearly so widely used as they should be. As organization charts are an excellent example of the division of a total into its components, a number of ...
Charts of the type published by Schürch appear to have been in common use in Germany at the time; [12] [13] [14] however, the prior development leading to Schürch's work is unclear. [15] Unlike later Gantt charts, Schürch's charts did not display interdependencies, leaving them to be inferred by the reader.
Achievers (formerly I Love Rewards [2]) was founded in 2002 by Razor Suleman in Toronto, Canada. [3] He decided to start Achievers upon being appointed to provide a solution for a consulting project for a large corporate client that wasn't having a lot of success motivating their employees.
The taxonomy is based on a character theory. This character theory consists of four characters: Achievers, Explorers, Socializers, and Killers (often mapped onto the four suits of the standard playing card deck; Diamonds, Spades, Hearts, and Clubs, in that order).