M5A B4N

A recently published research paper that I read last week which was written by Dr. Gail Matthews of Dominican University demonstrates that writing your goals and making a public commitment about them significantly increase your accomplishment about those goals. So here I am, and I am writing and making a commitment to complete reading the following books by the end of next year, 2011:

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
• The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
• Death by Meeting: Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business by Patrick Lencioni
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston
• Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley

I actually started reading the last two before and made both of them to almost halfway, so it will be about one book every three months. We’ll see how it goes.