Name: Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night
Author: Phil Buckley (Author)
ISBN: 9781118556559

Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night book cover

Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night

Author(s): Phil Buckley (Author)

Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Publication Date: 3 May 2013
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1118556550
ISBN-13: 9781118556559

Book Description

Praise for CHANGE WITH CONFIDENCE

“Phil Buckley is a world-class change leader and world-champion enthusiast for effective change management. Straightforward and engaging, Phil addresses the 50 questions all change managers need to answer with confidence in order to succeed. Rare too for an author in this field, he shares the ‘how-not-to’ as well as the ‘how-to.’ This is a book any manager wanting to succeed in change should keep close by.”

― Professor Chris Bones, Dean Emeritus, Henley Business School; Professor of Leadership, University of Manchester; and award-winning author of The Cult of the Leader

“Phil Buckley’s book gives excellent, practical advice on how to implement change in any private or public organization. What makes Change with Confidence so special is that it is organized around questions that anybody who is engaged in or leading change management will find to be key to their success. The real-life examples given for each question make this a very readable book. A must-buy for anybody who wants to avoid the most common mistakes in change management.”

― Stefan A. Bomhard, President, Europe, Bacardi Martini Group

“Change with Confidence provides leaders and leaders of change with a wealth of knowledge and experience that they can apply to their own change initiatives, and the real-world examples provide additional clarity on how to successfully manage or avoid common pitfalls.”

― David Sculthorpe, CEO, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

Change Management is about helping people decide to change successfully

If you have been charged with leading a change initiative, chances are you were chosen for the job―that is, you didn’t volunteer, but rather were tapped to lead or manage a large change project. You may have been given a short briefing and left to your own devices to succeed or fail in an uncertain, often threatening, environment. You may find yourself struggling to adapt your skill set to unfamiliar and anxiety-inducing conditions, conscious that your performance will affect your future career paths.

Change with Confidence addresses the 50 biggest questions that change leaders ask time and again, and provides the context, examples, and advice to answer them well, and to enable successful, sustainable change. Whether you’re trying to figure it out, are in the planning stage, are actively managing or are working to make it stick, you’ll find guidance for a wide range of issues, including:

Analyzing previous change initiatives to see what worked, what didn’t, and why
Finding out who can influence your success or failure, help you, or trip you up
Determining what resources you’ll need and how to get them
Overcoming change fatigue and opposition to change.

Although every change has its own circumstances, there are proven processes, tactics, and behaviors that lead to lasting success. Change with Confidence offers practical, experience-based advice on a difficult and stressful challenge.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night by Phil Buckley is an excellent primer for those in change management … Change with Confidence is practical, useful and absolutely crucial for those tasked with change management in their organizations. It’s easy to read (Buckley eschews useless jargon and complex but impractical theories), and organized in such a manner that it’s a breeze looking for the answer to your specific problem. With this in hand, you shouldn’t need to feel out of depth when you’re assigned to the next change project.“
―Daniel Goh, Young Upstarts Blog

“If you lead change, it will be needed.”
―Harvey Schachter, The Globe and Mail

“Phil Buckley, in his new book Change With Confidence provides practical answer to fifty of the biggest questions that keep change leaders up at night… Here are ten of the key questions that apply equally well to the world of startups and entrepreneurs, as they do to large organizations. If entrepreneurs answer these questions for their startup, they will definitely stay ahead of most of their competitors in the startup world. When was the last time you approached change with confidence, rather than fighting it all the way?”
―Martin Zwilling, Forbes.com

Change with Confidence by Phil Buckley is a great handbook for working through a big change project.Buckley’s approach is people-centered and emphasizes the responsibility of change and organizational leaders… This book can help any change project from beginning to end and help you grow as a leader in the process. “
―Michael McKinney, Leading Blog

“If you’ve ever asked yourself “how can I make a difference?” in leading change at your organization, add Change with Confidence to your reading list. While the book is great for finding answers to questions as the arise, in a perfect world, project managers and change leaders would sit down and read cover to cover so they can adequately plan for every step along the way. Change management is just as much about advanced planning as it learning to adapt to new situations as they arise. By learning to change with confidence, the future of the social enterprise doesn’t look so stagnant.”
―Marisa Peacock , CMS Wire

I highly recommend the essential and indispensable book Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night by Phil Buckley, to any leaders at any level of an organization, who are currently involved in change management or who anticipate a change project in the near future. This book will remove the questions and doubt, for change leaders and managers, and replace them with confidence and resolve.”
―Wayne Hurlbert, Blog Business World

From the Inside Flap

Change Management is about helping people decide to change successfully

If you have been charged with leading a change initiative, chances are you were chosen for the job that is, you didn’t volunteer, but rather were tapped to lead or manage a large change project. You may have been given a short briefing and left to your own devices to succeed or fail in an uncertain, often threatening, environment. You may find yourself struggling to adapt your skill set to unfamiliar and anxiety-inducing conditions, conscious that your performance will affect your future career paths.

Analyzing previous change initiatives to see what worked, what didn’t, and why
Finding out who can influence your success or failure, help you, or trip you up
Determining what resources you’ll need and how to get them
Overcoming change fatigue and opposition to change.

From the Back Cover

CHANGE MANAGEMENT IS ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE DECIDE TO CHANGE SUCCESSFULLY

Analyzing previous change initiatives to see what worked, what didn’t, and why
Finding out who can influence your success or failure, help you, or trip you up
Determining what resources you’ll need and how to get them
Overcoming change fatigue and opposition to change.

About the Author

PHIL BUCKLEY is a senior change management professional with over twenty years of experience developing and executing change strategies to achieve aggressive business goals across global businesses in Canada, the Americas, and the UK. He has managed twenty-seven large-scale change projects, most recently co-leading global change management for the $19.6 billion Kraft Foods acquisition of Cadbury with a team of forty change leads across sixty countries.

His change assignments include mergers and acquisitions, demergers, organization restructurings, efficiency drives, culture initiatives, business model developments, strategy creation and deployments, downsizings, systems implementations, and organizational capability developments. Phil’s practical experience working on change initiatives in twenty countries has taught him how to help people make lasting changes within their local environments and to give them the results they need. He is a frequent public speaker on change, including hundreds of corporate keynote presentations, business facilitations, and college teaching classes. His weekly blog is at changewithconfidence.com.

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