Checklists

It’s possible to have done a task so many times, that it is impossible to imagine any step being forgotten.  Routines and habits take care of many daily tasks.  No need for a checklist to get fully dressed in the morning.

We may think our jobs are too complicated to be reduced into a checklist.   On the contrary though:  the very complexity of them points to the benefits of a checklist approach.  The aviation industry introduced checklists, medicine has perfected them, and the construction sector benefits from checklists every day.  Checklists help ease the burden of having to remember everything.