Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, is a non-fiction book written by Michael Lewis. The book is about a former baseball player that became a manager of a US baseball team named, Oakland Athletics. It is a real life encounter of the protagonist Billy Beane, a major league baseball player, who brings together a strong baseball team, despite financial constraints. Billy was able to assemble a strong baseball team while employing innovative strategies and techniques. He invented a system that worked for the team, and that of his competitors. The book talks of Billy’s organizational culture, and how he led his team to a successive win, despite the challenges.

Lewis presents an excellent book on organizational culture, leadership, change management, innovation, transformation, and risk taking. The book shows how good leaders function through risk taking and this brings fruitful results to the organization. Lewis explores Billy as a strong leader, who was able to shake up an establishment of professional baseball and it was fruitful. I addition, Billy is depicted as a great leader who know how to handle his team, despite the fact that top players had left due to financial constraints.

By applying sabermetrics to baseball, Billy was able to lead Oakland Athletics to defeat bigger and rich teams. Billy applied a different approach of particular metrics to pick, and evaluate his players. He was able to identify the undervalued players, and later on created a strong Oakland Athletics team that became successful. Billy knew that other teams were using the traditional way to evaluate their players and by using the metrics, he had an advantage over them. Furthermore, he was determined to create a successful team and he never let th...

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...yers and their managers. Billy’s leadership skills and organizational management can be very helpful to any manager of a team. The book is very effective with key learning, for instance, change management, organizational culture, innovation, strategizing, leadership, and risk taking. It is the best book for managers who want to build their teams from scratch. He was a good encouragement to the team and this can be seen through his words, “You may not look like a winning team but you are one.”Billy portrayed good leadership and management qualities that every manager should possess. The book offers critical insights that encourage every manager to think out-of-the-box. The biggest lesson from the book is that every problem has a solution.

Works Cited

Lewis, Michael. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. Print.