Leadership & Time Series

Explore a curated selection of management insights focusing on productivity, power, and temporal strategy. This series provides executives and emerging leaders with the tools to master their most valuable resource.

On Amazon

Time Management for Work and Home: “A Real-World Guide to Balancing Leadership, Family, and Your Own Life”

How to Lead at Work and Love at Home Without Burning Out

Are you running two companies at once — the one that pays you and the one that calls you Mom or Dad?

In this honest, story-driven guide, author Chet Matterson sits at the kitchen table with you and shows how to build a week you can actually live. Instead of color-coded hacks or guilt-driven slogans, you’ll find real scenes from managers and parents who learned to steer two good lives at the same time.

Inside you’ll discover how to:

Identify your “bright hour” and protect it for the work only you can do.
Turn meetings and messages into clear decisions instead of endless pings.
Say no without burning bridges — at work and at home.
Take vacations, sick days, and parental leave without coming back to chaos.
Refit your rhythms when seasons change — new jobs, new schools, elder care.
Create small rituals of joy that refill you instead of draining you.

Each chapter begins with a story you’ll recognise — a fire drill at work, a feverish child at home — and then walks you through practical steps and ready-to-use scripts. The result is a simple but durable system you can return to even when life is loud.

If you’re a manager, a parent, a caregiver, or anyone with a full life who wants to spend time on purpose instead of reacting, Time Management for Work and Home will help you reclaim your clearest minutes and use them where they matter most

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CEO: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

college gave you frameworks. The seat gives you deadlines. CEO: What They Didn’t Teach You in College is a field manual for running a company like an adult—steady, dated, and on paper. Veteran operator Chet Matterson distills decades of practice into four duties only the CEO can do: set Direction, choose People, allocate Capital, and teach Standards. From your first 90 days to boardcraft and banking covenants, from union negotiations to AI change control, you’ll learn how to install a reliable management rhythm and make decisions that survive daylight. The book closes with twelve camera-ready tools—Direction Brief, 5R Decision Memo, 13-Week Cash Sheet, Weekly Decision Log, BCP 72-Hour Checklist, Public Voice Decision Tree, and more—so you can move from knowing to doing by next Monday. No buzzwords. No theater. Just the habits that keep promises when the room is hot.

AI's Advice For Managers: A Practical Guide to Using AI Wisely at Work

AI won’t replace managers. But managers who use AI wisely will work faster, think clearer, and lead with more steadiness.

Most books about AI are written for tech people.
This one is written for working managers—busy, responsible adults who don’t want hype, jargon, or sweeping promises that never survive Monday morning.

In AI’s Advice for Managers, Chet Matterson shows you how to bring AI into your daily work without surrendering your judgment, standards, or responsibility.

You’ll learn how to use AI to:

Draft clearer emails, memos, and announcements
Plan and run better meetings with sharper agendas and follow-ups
Organize decisions into simple briefs you can explain and defend
Map projects into phases, tasks, and risks you can actually manage
Summarize data and reports in plain language—without faking expertise
Prepare feedback and difficult conversations while keeping the human side front and center

You’ll also get:

Ten simple rules for using AI as a manager
Guardrails for privacy, accuracy, and reputation
Role-specific playbooks (HR, operations, customer-facing, education, admin support, and more)
A ready-to-use library of prompts, templates, and checklists you can apply right away

This is not a book about replacing managers with machines.
It’s a handbook for managers who want quiet, practical help—a way to use modern tools while keeping leadership human.

If you’re curious about AI but determined to stay the one in charge, this book will help you:

Work faster without cutting corners
Communicate more clearly when it matters most
Use AI confidently, safely, and wisely at work

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Managing Across Generations: Supervising Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, and Beyond (Alpha and Beta) Without Losing Your Standards

Seven generations. One workplace. One leader.
This is the guide that shows you how to manage them all—without losing your standards.

Inside this book, you will find:

Clear explanations of every generation, including traits, values, communication habits, strengths, and challenges
Practical guidance for leading Traditionalists, Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z, and the emerging Alpha and Beta generations
Straightforward strategies for setting expectations so clearly that conflict becomes rare
A calm, proven approach to discipline that works across all ages without yelling, guessing, or unnecessary drama
Ready-to-use tools such as policies, scripts, checklists, and comparison charts
A complete system for creating and maintaining a stable, orderly workplace

Whether you supervise teenage new hires, long-serving employees, or an entire multi-age workforce, this book provides a dependable path to consistent results, stronger teamwork, and a respectful environment.

If you want a workplace where people know what is expected, carry out their responsibilities well, and treat each other with dignity, this book will show you how to achieve it.

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