MAY 2017 38 | FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM {what are you reading} BOOKMARKED Where Frontdoors Media asks high-profile Valley visitors and residents what books they have been reading. Henry Rollins musician, radio host, writer, speaker I read that and I loved it. He was focused specifically on medicine and how creating checklists has gone a really long way in helping people execute at a high level. He talked about his experiences as a doctor doing this checklist on a patient. Someone [during surgery] asked the doctor they had liters of and he said, “I never need it in this operation.” But he nicked the patient in the operation and needed to do a blood transfusion. So his whole thing is why checklists actually help organizations. Everyone has to have a running checklist that at some point intersects with somebody else’s checklist. It’s so basic. I love checklists and so it was really good for me. The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology BY THOMAS DOLBY It’s a great story and he’s an excellent writer. Dolby wrote and asked if I would read it and write a thing for the back cover. I didn’t know what to expect but was interested. It was an excellent story. Checklist Manifesto BY ATUL GAWANDE journalist, documentary filmmaker, speaker Soledad O’Brien

MAY 2017 FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM | 39 I really enjoyed this book and its mini-excerpts about known entrepreneurs and their stories of how they became successful. Not necessarily a how-to book “but how they did it and what drove them.” It was interesting to read how different their success triggers were, yet through that you could see the commonality in all of them. To me that is very inspiring. Tools of Titans BY TIM FERRISS ceo and founder of mountainside fitness Tom Hatten Geena Davis Bossypants BY TINA FEY I didn’t get to it until just now. I love it, love it, love it. It’s really funny. I just love her sense of humor. BOOKMARKED CONTINUED Academy Award winner, keynote speaker at Valley of the Sun United Way ‘We Are United’ luncheon in Phoenix on April 28