Master Your World is a concise, engaging book on business management, people management, and of course, a bit of dog management. Funny, serious, and thoughtful, Kelly's book can change how you interact with the people around you. The ten inspired lessons are designed to simplify the role of leading people, even during difficult times, and in any business organization. The book starts with the top three golden rules: Reward Good Behavior, Do Not Reward Bad Behavior, and Be Consistent. Dr. Kelly emphasizes what every manager should know: You get the behavior that you reward. The next seven lessons are how to communicate, enforce, and maintain the first three lessons while building morale, improving productivity, and ultimately, increasing the bottom line. One of the major strengths of the book is Kelly's writing. She keeps readers interested with true stories, real-life situations, and pragmatic solutions to the daily challenges managers and leaders face in today's evolving workplace. Kelly's techniques were refined during her 21 years as an officer in the U.S. Navy, but Master Your World is clearly not a military book. It is humorous, entertaining, and inspirational. Every aspiring CEO can learn something from this book. This book is highly recommended for new supervisors, seasoned managers, and senior leadership who could benefit from a refresher on how to engage their teams. Her points make busy people think, and make thoughtful people smile and think again.

Master Your World: 10 Dog-Inspired Leadership Lessons to Improve Productivity, Profits and Communication

Business & Money

Mary C. Kelly

Management & Leadership

Productive Leaders

Do you want to grow your business in every economic environment? Is your business stuck? Would you like to move forward? Do you want 15 ideas on how to be more profitable? Highly recommended for anyone who needs to give their business a good boost. Fabulous resource for small business owners who need to maximize their marketing, sales and training budgets.

15 Ways to Grow Your Business in Every Economy

Kelly, Mary C.

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Why do so many leaders fail, and what do the best do differently? Whether you're in your first year of management or your 20th, Why Leaders Fail is a must read for aspiring leaders who know they need to be constantly learning, improving, and developing their leadership skills. <ul>
<li>Gain insight into behaviors that may be sabotaging the loyalty of your direct reports.</li>
<li>Identify the barriers undermining your team's ability to get things done. </li>
<li>Understand why your top talent may not be performing up to their potential. </li>
<li>Gain tools to help you align team goals with the organizational mission. </li>
<li>Gain awareness of how you are perceived by your direct reports, peers, and supervisors. </li>
<li>49 actionable prescriptions for success. </li>
<li>Facilitate an environment where employees can grow and develop to their full potential.</li>
<li>Free access to a personalized leadership assessment to identify your leadership strengths and weaknesses.</li>
</ul>Bronze Medal Winner of the Global Ebook Awards!

Why Leaders Fail: and the 7 Prescriptions for Success

Peter B. Stark

Business Culture

Review\n"Dr. Mary Kelly's 5-Minute Plans are a business leader's key to success. Simple and elegant worksheets invite the clarity and focus needed for strategic leadership, teamwork, and productivity." 
- Dr. Maragarita Gurri | CEO, DrRedShoe\n"Mary's ability to break leadership, productivity and strategy into bite-size chunks is absolutely amazing. This is a business must have!" 
- Joe Curcillo | CEO, Thought Emporium for Leading with a Unifying Vision\n"Mary makes it simple. Trust the process and reap the rewards." 
- Sharon M. Weinstein, CSP, FAAN | CEO, SMW Group\n"The 5-Minute Plans are how to do everything relating to your business faster and more efficiently! Love them!" 
- Mike Toy | author, It's Not Magic\nImprove your business or organization in just 5 minutes per week using these 5-Minute Plans. 
5 sections: Business Planning. Business Growth. Leadership. Productivity. Teamwork. 
There are 52 5-Minute Plans to solve today's business plans, because leaders are busy. 
Each day, spend a few minutes solving challenges like employee engagement, employee engagement, delegation, productivity, focus, crisis management, building resilience, values, vision, business growth, business planning, conflict resolution, feedback, sales, marketing, planning meetings, leadership improvement, promotions, and more. Everything you’ve been looking for is right in this book and you can access the forms in the online vault as well. 
That’s where 5-Minutes Per Week: 52 Weeks to a Better Business was born - a lack of time and a love of coffee. Mary loves checklists, and she realized she was not the only one. 
What leaders say they need: 
"I am so busy. I am not sure if I even have 5 extra minutes a day. Could I improve my business in 5 or 10 minutes, over that first cup of coffee at my desk? Maybe while the office is quiet and I can think about the business and what’s next. I need help now and I don't have time to waste." 
These 5-Minutes Plans are the answer. 
These will be the most important 5 minutes you spend a week, and they are going to change your life and your business. 
For the price of a one nice dinner, you’ll have access to over 70 5-Minute Plans that keep you moving in the right direction. The plans are in the online vault (code for the vault is in the book) and new 5-Minute Plans are being added all the time. 
This book multiplies your effectiveness.

5 Minutes Per Week 52 Weeks to a Better Business: With Less Stress, Happier Teams, and More Productivity

Leadership Succession Made Easy Leaders leave. It's inevitable. It might even happen today. Are you prepared? Every organization needs a plan for leadership succession, but few leaders know how to start the process. WHO COMES NEXT? solves that problem and easily guides you through the steps of creating and implementing a viable succession plan. This essential guidebook simplifies the process and gives you the tools you need to build and activate your leadership succession. You'll find a comprehensive action plan, a library of all the tools needed to develop and sustain your plan, and a resource guide. You'll learn how to: Communicate with customers about the change Identify talent gaps in your succession plan Decide which succession planning model to adapt Find your next generation of leadership within your organization Handle the unique emotional complexities of succession in a family-owned business Whether you are part of a small, family business, a Fortune 500 company or a non-profit, you need to start now by answering the question: WHO COMES NEXT?

Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy

Powell, Meridith Elliott

The 60-page Companion Workbook to Who Comes Next? Succession Planning Guide 
Start working on your organization’s leadership succession plan with this 60-page companion workbook to Who Comes Next?\nLeadership Succession Made Easy\nLeaders leave. It's inevitable. It might even happen today. Are you prepared?\nEvery organization needs a plan for leadership succession, but few leaders know how to start the process. WHO COMES NEXT? solves that problem and easily guides you through the steps of creating and implementing a viable succession plan.\nWho Comes Next? Succession Planning Guide simplifies the process and gives you the tools you need to build and activate your leadership succession. You’ll find a comprehensive action plan, a library of all the tools needed to develop and sustain your plan, and a resource guide. You’ll learn how to:\nCommunicate with customers about the change 
Identify talent gaps in your succession plan 
Decide which succession planning model to adapt 
Find your next generation of leadership within your organization 
Handle the unique emotional complexities of succession in a family-owned business\nWhether you are part of a small, family business, a Fortune 500 company or a non-profit, you need to start now by answering the question: WHO COMES NEXT?

Who Comes Next? Tools: Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy

Product Description 
Thoughtful leadership is needed now more than ever. Great organizations need their top talent to be great leaders, as well as subject matter experts. Leadership has to be developed. 
Leadership improves with experience, practice, and effort. This guide is a personal journey to become an even better leader. 
DEVELOP THE CRITICAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS TEAMS NEED NOW 
This is not a leadership "how to" book. It's a daily planner set in a conversational format that helps the reader focus and grow day-by-day. 
"I like the way the first sections set the stage by asking readers to take stock of their skills and competencies. The author also challenges readers to develop their personal mission and vision statements, which is a powerful way to start thinking about what kind of a leader one wants to be. 
Then, as readers progress with the daily planner entries, they can focus on achieving their personal mission and vision. I like the way the author encourages readers to spend five minutes per day on leadership development and provides the tool (this guide) to do so. Each day's entry page is presented with a quote, and that's a relevant added bonus to help readers focus the day's priorities and address the day's challenges. This guide/planner is a useful tool that I recommend for leaders at all levels of an organization and at all stages of leadership development." 
 Review 
"If you are looking for a great tool to foster leadership skills and personal development, the "5-Minute Leadership Guide" is just that. Loaded with opportunities to track personal progress and apply leadership strategies to real world challenges, this tool is a standout!" - 
Pamela Jett, CEO Jett Communication\n"This is your guide, playbook and toolbox all in one place making it the one item you need to move to the next level. Regardless of where you are in your journey you need this guide, not to read it but to live it, the results you will achieve will exceed all expectations." - 
Mark Hunter, author of 
A Mind For Sales"\nYou already have a brand. Your power to step into your potential is to get in control of it by getting more conscious, strategic, and deliberate by aligning it to who you really are!" - 
Suzanne Tulien, Author, 
Personal Brand Clarity; Identify, Define & Align to What You Want to Be Known For"\nThe Five Minute Leadership Guide is not a book about why leadership is important. There are enough of those. Instead, Mary Kelly has developed a work focused on "how" to become an effective leader. I am using this guide as my daily "leadership workout" and I expect real results. She has broken down all of the key components into a workable set of exercises. This is the guide we have all needed." - 
Barry Banther, Certified Management Consultant, Author of 
A Leader's Gift: How to earn the right to be followed, Speaker Hall of Fame\n"There are hundreds of thousands of books about becoming a better leader, and you might get lucky and find one that aligns with your talents and ideas. This may be the first book that provides the step-by-step instruction manual on becoming the leader YOU are meant to be, complete with action steps you can implement every day to achieve your goals. Buy this book. Study it. And most important, take out your pen and craft your unique leadership plan." - 
Sam Richter, CSP, Hall of Fame Speaker, Bestselling Author, Technology Entrepreneur 
 About the Author 
Mary C. Kelly | Ph.D., Commander, U.S. Navy (ret)CEO, Productive Leaders\nMary specializes in leadership growth that helps organizations improve their profitability and productivity, especially in finance, insurance, real estate, and manufacturing. One of the first female graduates of the Naval Academy, Mary served 25 years on active duty, mostly in Asia, leading multi-cultural teams in nine countries.\nMary has been a leadership and economics professor at the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy, and Hawaii Pacific University. She has written 13

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