The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande

A surgeon, tasked by the WHO with creating a universal pre-surgical checklist, explores the science and art of creating an effective, simple, checklist. He concludes that a checklist should guide us through the routine items so that we have the mental bandwidth to handle what is unique. The lessons are easily extrapolated to provide guidance on clinical decision support within an electronic health record, and our responsibility as we create tools for clinicians.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni

Describes a hierarchy for successful teams that starts with trust. If you have trust, you can have healthy conflict. With healthy conflict, you can get to true commitment. Commitment allows for accountability, and accountability ultimately produces results. This leadership style requires vulnerability and self reflection, as trust is only attained with intentionality.

Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

A fascinating exploration of intuition - how a well-informed "gut" can lead us in the right direction even when we don't consciously understand it yet. Equally so, how our subconscious can operate off of bad data and lead us astray. As leaders, we must be able to make decisions with a tolerance for ambiguity, and this can help us better understand when to operate off of intuition, and when to require data.