The Gold Mine Effect Crack the Secrets of High Performance

"The business world owes Rasmus much gratitude."-- Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO, The Lego Group How can we identify and develop business talent? Ex-professional footballer and high performance anthropologist Rasmus quit his job and traveled the world for six months, visiting "gold mines" of talent; living and training with the planet's best athletes in an attempt to answer this question and adapt his findings into a revolutionary business context. Rasmus Ankersen--born in 1983--is an author and motivational speaker who published his first book, the bestseller The DNA of a Winner, at twenty-two years old.

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.