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

by Phil Buckley

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, 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.

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 26, 2013

About the author

Buckley is a senior change management professional with over 25 years of experience enabling leaders and their teams to drive performance through change across global businesses in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. He has managed 32 large scale change projects, including co-leading global change management for the $19.6 billion Kraft Foods acquisition of Cadbury, which included a team of 40 change leads across 60 countries.

He is the author of the award-winning Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night (Jossey-Bass), providing complete, actionable answers to the burning questions that leaders routinely ask about how to manage change successfully. Phil’s latest book, Change on the Run: 44 Ways to Survive Workplace Uncertainty publishes on March 2, 2021. His work has been featured in Forbes, Businessweek, Globe and Mail and many other business publications.

Based in Toronto, Canada, Phil is an engaging public speaker and facilitator who has a genuine passion for helping people lead organizational change. You can find his podcast, Change on the Run, blog and monthly newsletter at changewithconfidence.com.

Reviews

[Matt R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pop quiz: Changes are happening at your company. The powers that be have just selected you to be the leader of a team that will lead this organizational change. You have never done this before and have little time to waste. What do you do?

Thankfully Phil Buckley's Change With Confidence helps you answer this question and many more.

The book takes you from the beginning stages (the "Ahh, what do I do?!" phase) all the way to the end (the "how do I make it stick" phase) of a change project. Each chapter provides easily digestible advice and real-world examples to help you wade through your project's various stages. You can choose to read it cover to cover or jump right in to the chapter that's most applicable to your situtation.

Unlike many other books on the topic, which are usually steeped in theory, Change with Confidence reads like a tactical field guide, giving the reader relevant coaching, helping to see them through to the end of the project.

Like me, it is very possible that you are not a Change Manager, but a Brand Manager or a Financial Analyst, put in charge of an assignment that requires you to embrace change. Regardless of your field, we know change is always certain and this is why Change with Confidence deserves a place on your bookshelf--or your back pocket!

[Michelle Sangillo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is packed with great advice on how to lead change, including tools to help guide the process. Also included in the book are many examples of good outcomes of well managed change, and bad outcomes of poorly managed change.