It was great to hear Billy Walsh, Irish Boxing Team Coach, yesterday at the Dublin Chamber Business Owners Network talk about some simple truths that radically changed the results the Irsh Boxing Team has got in recent years. They have won nearly ten times the amount of world class medals in the last seven years than was won in their entire history ’till then and, for me, Billy cited three things that made the difference: They created an awareness of what their current reality was in terms of behaviours and results – They weren’t allowed near the French Training Camp because of the distration the Irish Team may cause with its lack of a professional and committed discipline They changed the culture  and their approach to EVERYTHING – They benchmaked themselves against the best – eventually getting access to the Russian Training Camps, from which they are now banned, such is the Irish success They committed them 100% to being the best in the World – so much so that many boxers dropped out along the way The rest is history, the results speak for themselves and are great credit to them. We can all learn from this DaveG