Why are 137 of the world’s 500 best female golfers
from South Korea? How did one athletic club in
Kingston, Jamaica, manage to produce most of the
world’s best sprinters? What’s the reason that the
world’s best marathon runners grew up in the same
village in Ethiopia? What is the secret behind Brazil’s
mass production of soccer super stars? How has one
tennis club in Moscow managed to develop more
top tennis players in ten years than the whole of the
United States?
For six months, bestselling author and ex-professional
footballer Rasmus Ankersen travelled around the
world visiting these six talent gold mines and adapting
his findings into a revolutionary business context. He
talked, trained and lived with the athletes in order to
discover what, if anything, they have in common and
to attempt to crack the code of developing world class
talent. The result is THE GOLD MINE EFFECT,
a book which questions all the misconceptions,
conventional wisdom and popular theories about
talent, hard work, parenting and motivation. Ankersen
presents his surprising conclusions in seven lessons
on how anyone — or any business, organization or
team — can defy the many misconceptions of high
performance and learn to build their own gold mine
of real talent.