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Book Title:When People Throw Wrenches: Navigating the Emotions, Politics, and Power Plays of High-Stakes Change
Author:Phil Buckley
Published:2026
How is your book helping others?
In When People Throw Wrenches, award-winning author Phil Buckley draws on more than thirty-five years of experience managing thirty-two large-scale change programs to show you the ways people inevitably react to changes, and how you can anticipate and respond to these behaviors to ensure your initiative will succeed. When People Throw Wrenches is an essential resource for leaders, change practitioners, and project managers working on high-stakes change initiatives, including operating model redesigns, organizational restructures, mergers and acquisitions, culture resets, and systems implementations. This book will help you spot self-interested behavior early (before it takes hold), decode the emotional drivers that motivate self-protection or gain, and respond in ways that protect credibility, relationships, and results.