Change With Confidence: Answers To The 50 Biggest Questions That Keep Change Leaders Up At Night

In this book a change management professional with nearly a quarter-century's experience arms change leaders with complete, actionable solutions the most challenging questions they are likely to face. Over the course of his career leading big change projects in major corporations in the US, UK and Canada, Phil Buckley has detected a pattern to what leaders typically don’t know about managing change in their organizations. In Change with Confidence, he distils that pattern down to the top fifty questions that keep change managers up nights, and he provides the kinds of prescriptive answers they need to cure their insomnia and instil them with the confidence they need to successfully tackle any change project.

• Offers advice in clear, easily digestible chunks, and an accessible and approachable way into a difficult and stressful topic
• Written in a quick-reference Q-and-A format, it provides concise, yet thorough answers illustrated with many real-world examples
• Every chapter features war stories from change projects that went right—and a few that went horribly wrong—along with full-length case studies from top organizations across industries
• Supplies proven techniques for information gathering, delivering the desired business benefits, managing the people side of change, and much more

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.