Change and growth are difficult.

As in personal and political life, so too in business life.

“It might be said that living means, above all, dealing with problems. Unsolved problems tend to cause a kind of mental anguish. Whether this has always been so may well be questioned, but it is certainly so in the modern world.”

So said the economist E F Schumacher. The psychologist M Scott Peck takes it further.

“Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? It is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems distinguish between success and failure. They call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom.”

No business willingly signs up for uncertainty and change. Paradoxically, in admitting that it has challenges a business will grow its human capital and its economic value.