The Gold Mine Effect: Crack the Secrets of High Performance

by Rasmus Ankersen

Overview

We all want to discover our hidden talents and make an impact with them. But how? Rasmus Ankersen, an ex-footballer and performance specialist, quit his job and spent six months living with the world's best athletes in an attempt to answer this question.

Ankersen presents his surprising conclusions in seven lessons on how anyone—or any business or team—can defy the misconceptions of high performance, learning to build their own gold mine of real talent.

Rasmus Ankersen is a motivational speaker on talent and performance development and a trusted advisor for businesses and athletes around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848317109
Publisher:	Icon Books, Ltd. UK
Publication date:	10/13/2015
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rasmus Ankersen is a bestselling author, a motivational speaker on performance development and a trusted advisor to businesses and athletes around the world. He wrote his first book, The DNA of a Winner, at age 22. A year later he published his second, Leader DNA, which has been the bestselling leadership book in Denmark for the last five years. In his home country Rasmus has also won a Belingske Business Magazine award, being named one of the three biggest business talents in Denmark, and the Danish prime minister recently invited him to contribute a chapter to his new book The Danish Dream. He lives in South Kensington, London. Twitter @RasmusAnkersen.

Table of Contents

About the author vii

Acknowledgements ix

The Simon Kjacr problem 1

The eight Gold Mine concepts 11

1 The secret is not a secret 19

2 What you see is not what you get 41

3 Start early or die soon 81

4 We're all quitters 117

5 Success is about mindset, not facilities 147

6 The Godfathers 173

7 Not pushing your kids is irresponsible 193

8 Who wants it most 231

Epilogue 261

Notes 265

Index 271