Commit to Change, It’s No Longer an Option Or is it really an option? The biggest reoccurring challenge to a small business is change. You have to change in order to grow. Change and the ability to accept it, adapt to it and understand it remain the focal point for better business results. To take it one step further, how do you motivate your employees to accept change as it relates to your business? Resistance to change develops when there is a threat to anything that an employee values.