Michael Lewis challenged baseball's conventional wisdom with his 2003 bestseller, "Moneyball." If you're not familiar with the book, it follows the Oakland A's general manager, Billy Beane, as he builds a winning team with a substantially lower budget than his competitors by casting aside traditional stats like RBI and batting...
Here's a post for baseball nuts: Management by Baseball's A 2008 Billy Beane Lesson in Adaptation. It's lengthy though shorter than the typical baseball game, and connects why the Oakland A's have stumbled in the wake of "Moneyball" other teams figured out the same tricks, to what it means for...
The great national pastime isn't just a game — it’s a hugely successful, $6 billion business that any company can learn a few tricks from. It’s tough to be a serious major league baseball fan these days without having at least a decent grasp of what the great American pastime...
800ceoread is readying its take on the 100 best business books of all time. It just offered up a sneak preview of five of the books that will be on the list, which will be published in December Four of the five are conventional business books, if...
We all read business books, most of them rah-rah motivational fluff like The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership or extended think pieces like A Whole New Mind. But the ones I enjoy the most are story-telling peeks inside another industry. I'm a fan of Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The New New...
Michael Lewis is an awesome journalist. I've read The New New Thing and Moneyball and enjoyed them both quite a bit. His latest book, The Blind Side, is equally impressive. Below is the summary from Amazon and then my favorite quotes / lines from the book. I highly recommend this...
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