Summary of Rasmus Ankersen's Gold Mine Effect

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I spent my boyhood in rural western Denmark, in a little town in the middle of nowhere. I was captain of one of Denmark’s best youth teams, but I ended up injured before my career could even begin. I spent my career as a coach helping establish Scandinavia’s first football academy.
#2 The Danish defender Simon Kjaer was sold to Palermo in Italy when he was just eighteen years old. He was sold on to Wolfsburg in Germany when he was twenty, and now, still in his early twenties, he is with Roma.
#3 The story of Simon Kjaer is not one of raw, inbred talent. It is of anything but. His success should be explained by the fact that he was born with an extraordinary innate talent, but that is not the case.
#4 The case of Simon Kjaer is not unique. Coaches, managers, parents, and teachers all have to deal with their own Simon Kjaer problem. Talent is a crucial factor in the economic struggles taking place in the 21st century.

Sujets

• Business
• Economics
• Strategic Planning

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669399315
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Rasmus Ankersen's Gold Mine Effect
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I spent my boyhood in rural western Denmark, in a little town in the middle of nowhere. I was captain of one of Denmark’s best youth teams, but I ended up injured before my career could even begin. I spent my career as a coach helping establish Scandinavia’s first football academy.

#2

The Danish defender Simon Kjaer was sold to Palermo in Italy when he was just eighteen years old. He was sold on to Wolfsburg in Germany when he was twenty, and now, still in his early twenties, he is with Roma.

#3

The story of Simon Kjaer is not one of raw, inbred talent. It is of anything but. His success should be explained by the fact that he was born with an extraordinary innate talent, but that is not the case.

#4

The case of Simon Kjaer is not unique. Coaches, managers, parents, and teachers all have to deal with their own Simon Kjaer problem. Talent is a crucial factor in the economic struggles taking place in the 21st century.

#5

The global economy is experiencing a crisis, and talent development is becoming increasingly important. The Chinese government has launched the most comprehensive national talent strategy, while companies in Brazil are trying to attract talented citizens back home from abroad.

#6

The world-class talent search is on, and every company and nation is trying to find the best performers. I decided to quit my job and use all the money I had left to travel around the world and train in six Gold Mines – small, geographically defined locations that are pumping out top performers assembly-line fashion.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was waiting for the training group I had been allowed to follow for the day. Twelve Kenyan men and boys ran toward me at full speed, their tracksuits slapping audibly in the wind.

#2

There are many places in the world where we find a similar phenomenon: places that produce results that seem inexplicable at first sight. The Kalenjin tribe in Kenya is one of them. They have won many gold medals and toppled a succession of long-distance world records.

#3

The eight Gold Mine concepts are: The secret is not a secret, what you see is not what you get, start early or die soon, we’re all quitters, success is about mindset, not facilities, the Godfathers, and not pushing your kids.

#4

I understood Cheboiboch’s message much more clearly: if you want to understand, you must be like a Kenyan, live like a Kenyan. I suddenly understood that the twelve Kenyans had effortlessly disappeared.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Colm O’Connell, the coach, was a young Irishman who had never attended an athletics meet in his life when he left Ireland for Kenya in February 1976 to teach at an isolated boarding school 2,800 meters up in the Rift Valley.

#2

Colm O’Connell, who was from Ireland, became the athletics coach at St. Patrick’s High School in Kenya in the 1980s. He learned how to coach through trial and error, as he had the boys at his disposal 24 hours a day.

#3

The athletic Gold Mine in the Rift Valley is one of the most sensational phenomena in the history of sport. We are not talking about ice hockey, rugby, or baseball, all of which are regionally based sports. We are talking about a global sport, pursued professionally in almost every country in the world, and yet conquered by a tiny group of people all living in a 100 kilometre radius.

#4

The dominance of the Kenyan runners is intimidating. In 2011, 258 Kenyan marathon runners ran the 44. 2 km race in under two hours and fifteen minutes. Britain, with a population twice the size of Kenya’s, delivered only a single performance under that time.

#5

Theories have been proposed to explain the dominance of East African runners, such as the thin air they grow up in, the lack of results in sprint events, and the existence of good genes for long-distance running. But these theories do not explain why other countries have not produced any world-class long-distance runners.

#6