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How to outthink your competition -- with a lesson from sports | Rasmus Ankersen

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4.111.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Does success come from luck or skill, and how do you tell the difference? One way to find an answer: think like a pro gambler does, says football executive Rasmus Ankersen. Using sports analytics to emphasize his point, Ankersen digs into the reasons why successful companies often hesitate to change until it's too late, offering data-driven lessons on how to stay ahead of your competition.

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0:00.0

I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.

0:07.4

Big question.

0:08.4

Why do successful companies, ones that have been successful for years, wind up failing?

0:14.6

The Troves of Data from Soccer, or as it's known in the rest of the world, football,

0:19.4

can help explain it.

0:20.8

In his 2018 talk from TEDx Manchester, author Rasmus Enkerson reveals the link between

0:26.3

successful soccer teams and any organizations that want to maintain their leads after the

0:32.4

break.

0:33.4

Hey Ted Talks Daily listeners, I'm Adam Grant.

0:37.6

I host another podcast from the Ted Audio Collective.

0:40.6

It's called Work Life, and it's about the science of making work not suck.

0:44.9

Next time, making change happen.

0:47.1

The number one mistake of leading change is that we try to change things with information,

0:52.3

and people have to have an emotional response to open them up to change.

0:57.8

Find out how to change, even if you're not in a position of power.

1:02.1

Find Work Life on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

1:06.6

To remember this one, it's a Nokia 3310.

1:12.3

Once recognized as the greatest phone ever produced, I guess most of you in this room own one,

1:19.5

didn't you?

1:20.5

Please raise your hand if you own the 3310.

1:23.3

Wow, so almost 100% market share here.

1:27.0

So you remember that it never ran out of battery?

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