EDITOR’S LETTER
THE GREATEST SUCCESS STORIES, BE IT SPORT, BUSINESS OR POLITICS TEND TO HAVE A PERIOD OF ADVERSITY somewhere in the narrative. In business especially, they say it’s impossible to succeed until you have failed – at least twice. Failure, however bizarre it may seem, is so often the key to success. And if there is a concern about this current All Blacks team a year out from the 2019 World Cup, it is the lack of adversity they have known since they won the last tournament. Many of the team that won the World Cup in 2011 and 2015 had known the bitter taste of failure. Many had known what it felt like to lose on the biggest stage, to implode in front of millions of people and then endure years of hurt. It…