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Gilchrist: NHL Captains Function as Emotional Leaders, Not Executive Decision-Makers
“But in hockey, like, the captain's not making decisions, so he's not the leader of the team. He's the, he may be the emotional leader or the best player leader on the ice and in the locker room, but he's beyond the leader, the leadership of decision making, wh…”
Gilchrist: Elite Players Differentiate Through Peak Consistency, Not Superior Raw Skill
“I think the best players in the game, the best players in the world, and the, historically, the Hall of Famers, I don't think their skills are that much better than everybody else. They are better, and Circumstances, sure, they may be faster, better shots, bet…”
Gilchrist: Physical Limitations Do Not Disqualify Players If They Drive Wins
“You either can play and help a team win, or you can't. There's no attribute that's gonna say you can't do this. If you're small and you can't play, it means you're not good enough to play, and so everybody's judged on whether you help a team win or not, whethe…”
Gilchrist: Great Sports Teams Play for Teammates Over Organizational Branding
“That the front of the jersey the logo does mean less, and I think what means the same is your teammates. I think the great teams play for each other. They play for their team. Sure, they play for their fans. They want to make their fans proud, but if it's not …”
Gilchrist: Job Security and Public Optics Constrain Most Corporate Leadership Decisions
“He could make a decision and never worry once about his job if it was the wrong decision, and that's a hard thing for any leader, coaches, you know, business managers, is when you make a decision, it's I've got this decision nailed, but it's going to be viewed…”
Gilchrist: Very Few Junior Mining Exploration Projects Ever Become Operational Mines
“Whether it's exploration, and we're not exploration guys, we're not, we look for assets that are ready to, or close to being developed as mines, and when you look at that whole sphere, that whole world, there's very few projects that are ever going to be mines…”
Gilchrist: Public Markets Ignore Mining Assets Lacking Massive Speculative Upside
“The market, the public market tends to ignore things that don't, you know, that, that they can't really promote to be something massive, right? When somebody puts their money into a junior exploration project, they want to see the potential to take your 10 cen…”
Gilchrist: Mining Development Always Requires More Time and Capital Than Planned
“Things change in the north, or change in Africa, or change wherever, and it always takes more time. So, it's very difficult when you do a feasibility, you put a construction plan together. Well, that's a construction plan, a constrained construction plan, but …”
Gilchrist: Commodity Prices and Macro Interest Rates Are Fundamentally Unknowable
“And there's not one person out there that I will ever believe when they tell me what the price of a commodity is going to do. It just, it's not knowable. And it's funny how the world is so fascinated by predicting and telling us, you know, we pay a lot of peop…”
Gilchrist: Mining Projects Demand Extraordinary Initial Return Projections to Absorb Friction
“So when we look at things, we know that we're looking at extraordinarily high returns from the first view, because we know that those are going to be hampered as you get, as you dig into the, and the devil's in the details.”