If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.
What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.