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    The movie Moneyball is based on the true story of Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A's baseball team. Struggling with a tight budget that was less than 40% of other teams, Beane and his assistant GM hired undervalued players to build a competitive team. In the 2002 season, the A's achieved an all-time record 20 game winning streak despite their disadvantages. Beane faced challenges implementing unconventional strategies and overcoming resistance from those wanting to maintain the status quo. However, his analytic approach focused on winning rather than imitating other teams' tactics.

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    The movie Moneyball is based on the true story of Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A's baseball team. Struggling with a tight budget that was less than 40% of other teams, Beane and his assistant GM hired undervalued players to build a competitive team. In the 2002 season, the A's achieved an all-time record 20 game winning streak despite their disadvantages. Beane faced challenges implementing unconventional strategies and overcoming resistance from those wanting to maintain the status quo. However, his analytic approach focused on winning rather than imitating other teams' tactics.

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    The movie Moneyball is based on the true story of Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A's baseball team. Struggling with a tight budget that was less than 40% of other teams, Beane and his assistant GM hired undervalued players to build a competitive team. In the 2002 season, the A's achieved an all-time record 20 game winning streak despite their disadvantages. Beane faced challenges implementing unconventional strategies and overcoming resistance from those wanting to maintain the status quo. However, his analytic approach focused on winning rather than imitating other teams' tactics.

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    The Movie Money ball is based on the true events happened to Billy Beane’s life, He is the

    General Manager of the Oakland A’s Baseball team. Beane and his Assistant GM, Peter Brand
    hired under-valued players, so that they could reduce the budget with less than 40% of their
    competitors. In the 2001-02 season, the A’s achieved a 20 game winning streak – an all-time
    record.

    “There are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there is 50 feet of crap and then there’s us.
    It’s an unfair game”.

    “We’ve got to think differently”.

    Beane had lots of limitations. Back then the club’s owner had control over the budget; the team’s
    income was controlled by the manager, and the players controlled their own behavior.

    Here Billy Bean is the General Manager of Oakland Athletics. We learned a of lot things from
    Billy Bean to act as a leader, how important decisions are as a leader and what decisions to make
    at crucial times. In the movie Yankee introduced three star players to the team out of which Bean
    decided to make some changes and expected them to be under him, make them perform
    efficiently and effective. Here Bean introduced a pitcher who is a base player and throws the ball
    in an unusual way.

    Like Beane, you’re going to face challenges and you’ll come across negative people who lack of
    ambitions – dismissing change because “that’s how it’s always been done (here)”. If you’re
    trying to disrupt the status quo and at the same time, beat bigger and funded competitors, you
    don’t need to imitate their strategy. You need to think uniquely. Using old but effective methods
    when you’re at a disadvantage is a sure-fire way of losing the battle.

    It centers on the character of the Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt),
    who after a bad start as a MLB player, moved over to management and was driven by his hatred
    of losing. In his previous season, he’d taken the A’s to the World Series, only to have them lose
    and see their best three players hired away by richer teams with better offers.

    Billy Beane is an inward and lonely man, recovering from a broken marriage and doting on his
    daughter, Casey (Kerris Dorsey). He’s so affected that he can’t bear to watch a game in the
    stadium, and sometimes drives aimlessly while listening to it on the radio. He knows failure to
    win the game will make him lose his job. He faces fierce opposition from his bullet-headed team
    manager, Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who feels his experience is being insulted by a
    manager mesmerized by some half-baked Ivy League theorist.

    Pitt has some soul-baring scenes with Jonah Hill in which he wonders what it all means, anyway.
    It doesn’t matter if you have a 20-game winning streak. All that matters is that you win and make
    a memorable moment in the last game of the season. Even the players are merely inventory, and
    there are dramatic moments of players being traded or moved down to the minors. Baseball is
    business after all.

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