{"id":1173,"date":"2009-02-19T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2009-02-19T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T20:44:45","slug":"small-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/small-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small matters.<\/p>\n<p>Enough said.<\/p>\n<p>In my wind down from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompeters.com\">Tom Peters<\/a> yesterday, the underlying theme was that small matters, it matters more now than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on small things that result in behavioural differences.<\/p>\n<p>For example he gave the case of:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Docs, nurses make own checklists on whatever\u00a0process-procedure they choose,\u00a0<\/em><span><em>Within <\/em><\/span><span><em>weeks<\/em><\/span><span><em>, average stay in <\/em><\/span><span><em>ICU<\/em><\/span><span><em> down <\/em><\/span><span><em>50%. \u00a0Source: Atul Gawande, \u201cThe Checklist\u201d (New Yorker, 1210.07)&#8221;. (from Slide 74, download below)&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The next five years are going to be our defining legacy. \u00a0It is what we did during this time that we will remember. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompeters.com\/entries.php?note=010862.php\">slides<\/a> from the Tom Peters blog, dig through them, print them out, there are lots of gems in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small matters. Enough said. In my wind down from Tom Peters yesterday, the underlying theme was that small matters, it matters more now than ever before. Focus on small things that result in behavioural differences. For example he gave the case of: &#8220;Docs, nurses make own checklists on whatever\u00a0process-procedure they choose,\u00a0Within weeks, average stay in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1150,1151,1286],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}