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    This movie tells the story of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's baseball team. Faced with a limited budget, Beane hires Peter Brand, an economics graduate, who convinces Beane to use statistical analysis to find undervalued players who can help the team win games. Despite resistance internally and externally to this unconventional approach, the A's have success and come within one game of making the World Series. Beane's innovative strategy shows how an analytical mindset can help smaller teams compete against larger opponents with greater financial resources.

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    This movie tells the story of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's baseball team. Faced with a limited budget, Beane hires Peter Brand, an economics graduate, who convinces Beane to use statistical analysis to find undervalued players who can help the team win games. Despite resistance internally and externally to this unconventional approach, the A's have success and come within one game of making the World Series. Beane's innovative strategy shows how an analytical mindset can help smaller teams compete against larger opponents with greater financial resources.

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    Moneyball

    Organization Effectiveness and Change


    Introduction
    About Team: -
    Summary: -
    Directed by- Miller
    Produced by- Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt This movie tells the story of Billy Beane, who is General Manager of
    Written by- tan Chervin Oakland A. He is going to lose 3 stars to free agency and also need to
    Box Office- 110.2 million USD build a competitive team on limited budget. He knew that its very
    Year of release- 09th Sept 2011 difficult for Oakland to compete for World Series with the limited
    Screenplay- Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin budget if they go by traditional route. He needed some competitive
    - Columbia Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Plan B Entertainment
    advantage. In a meeting with Cleveland Indians management about
    players, Billy meets Peter Brand, a quiet Yale Economics graduate, who
    works for the Indians doing player analysis. Billy was quite impressed
    and decided to hire Peter. Once on the payroll, Peter convinces Billy to
    look at the entire dugout, and acquire undervalued players for what
    they can do in order for the team to win. They face a lot of resistance
    About movie: - both internal and external but once their approach started working,
    they just stopped one win off world series.
    Moneyball is a 2011 American sports drama film. The film is based on the 2003 nonfiction book by Michael Lewis, an account of the Oakland At
    Critical Analysis and Applications in Organization Behavior

     Billy Beane realized at the start itself that with 1/3rd of the budget of the big teams, there is no chance of winning world
    series by Oakland A if they go by traditional route. So, he defined the 3 major goals at the start: replace 3 key leaving players,
    create a championship winning baseball team and make money. He later found Brand who also believed in an
    unconventional and cheap way of building team and hired him to help achieve the goal.
     Billy also showed the leadership required for the changes he wanted in organization. There were a lot of people, both within
    and outside team who were critical of the approach. He first tried to make them understand. Then he showed them that with
    their meagre budget this is best way to go. But still when coach decided to not play the team which Billy wanted, he took
    aggressive approach and traded the few first teamers forcing coach hand.
     Another important characteristic of Billy was his self-belief. Even when initially results were going against Oakland, he
    believed its just a small sample size and it will turn around. He also made the owner understand his plan.
     Billy was throughout a very motivational persona for the team. He used to be young prodigy who was supposed to do great
    in MBL. But contrary he failed and had a very ordinary career. He understood how it felt to not succeed. Oakland was a small
    team who used to happy with just competing against big players. But when Billy saw the players happy even after loss, he
    lost his temper. He decided to change the culture. He also supported the player he bought. Most of them were rejected by
    others and lack confidence or lack some easily taught able skill. He made them understand what they need to do.
     Finally, Billy was quite dedicated towards Oakland. After losing final of World Series, he got an offer from Red Sox to become
    their manager which would have made him highest paid manager ever but he rejected the offer. Ironically, Red Sox using
    same statistical method as Billy won the world series in 2004.
    Thank You

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