Most companies, must grow or the competition will leave them behind. In order to grow faster they must also make changes in their processes. The key to effectively managing change is to create a culture that is willing to embrace change as the new norm.

One of my early mentors inspired me to restart after each painful management lesson by paraphrasing the following excerpt from Teddy Roosevelt’s 1915 speech at the Sorbonne, "if one fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that one’s place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”