Film Analysis- Moneyball Final

Moneyball
Film Analysis

By: Anathea Trettin, Arturo Morales, Steven Oakes, Lee J Atadero ​

Moneyball is about a Baseball Team (The Oakland A's) that is supposed to compete with the lowest salary in the league. The Team is forced to re-invent the way that baseball is played, in order to have a fighting chance to win against the richer teams.

​Summary

​-Billy Beane

" Let them make the mistakes. When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt them. They're giving you an out. Just giving it to you. Take it. Say 'thank you'. " 

​Influence Tactics

Influence Tactics are strategies used to change someones attitudes, behaviors, or values

Types of Tactics:
Rational Persuasion- Using logical Arguments or factual evidence
Inspirational Appeals- Using emotions
Personal Appeals- Doing a favor out of friendship
Ingratiation- Attempts to get you in a good mood before making a request

Multiple Choice

What is Rational persuasion?

• Using Logic and Facts to Influence

• Using Reason and Emotion to Influence

Multiple Choice

Ingratiation was used by Billy and Stephen before negotiation began

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What types of Influence were shown

• Rational Persuasion Tactics

• Personal Appeals

• Inspirational Appeals

• All of the Above

Values

Constructs representing generalized behaviors or states of affairs that are considered by the individual to be important

It is important for leaders to realize that individuals in the same work unit can have considerably different values, especially because we cannot see values directly

​Billy as the General Manager has different values for what he was looking for in players versus what his scouts are looking for

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Values in the Organization

Multiple Choice

What are values?

• Constructs representing behaviors considered by the individual not that important

• Constructs representing generalized behaviors or states of affairs that are considered by the individual to be important

• Constructs representing behaviors that have to be considered somewhat important to a whole group

Perception

Perception influences our reflection, which is how humans interpret their observations.

Billy Beane's perception of player statistics and his ability to see value where others don't.

Multiple Choice

What does Billy Beane say the real problem is?

• Unfair game and they have to think different

• Nobody wants to go to Oakland

• Can't agree on players

Authentic Leadership

Exhibit consistency among their values, beliefs, and actions.

Promoting transparency and openness in relationships build trust and commitment

-Beane recognized Brand's passion, making him Assistant GM
-Empower the right people

​Authentic Leadership

​The Power of Knowledge

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Expert Power

Multiple Choice

Authentic leadership exhibit consistency among...

• Values, beliefs, actions

• Values, courage, intelligence

• Values, power, wisdom

Multiple Choice

Where did Peter Brand go to School?

• Harvard

• Yale

• Stanford

Multiple Choice

Expert Power is

• Using emotion to Persuade

• Using facts to Persuade

• Using Knowledge to Persuade

Multiple Choice

What did Peter study?

• Business

• Economics

• Accounting

• HR

Different Values

Still value wanting to do things the traditional scouting way relying on subjective judgements and outdated metrics

The Scouts

Develops a data driven approach to player recruitment and team building. Values statistical analysis over intuition, focusing on the numbers that truly matter

Billy Beane

Multiple Choice

What is the key performance indicator for each player?

• Steals

• Home Runs

• On Base Percentage

Multiple Choice

How are traditional baseball values and beliefs challenged when it comes to player evaluation and team success?

• By emphasizing the use of data and statistics over subjective scouting and conventional wisdom

• Assembling a team of underpaid and inexperienced players and hoping for the best

• Prioritizing accumulation of low cost players

​Power given depends on a person's organizational role.
Typically positions like management are seen to have higher power

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​Legitimate power

Multiple Choice

What does Coach Art have the power to do?

• Play the team how he wants

• Pick players to join the team

• He has no power

Multiple Choice

What is Legitimate power?

• Power given based on organizational role

• Power given based on Knowledge

• Power given based on consequence

• Power given based on Rewards

A personal relationship in which a more experienced person (mentor) acts as a guide or role model.

​Mentoring

Equipping people with the tools, knowledge, and opportunities they need to develop and become more successful.

​Coaching

Leader Development

Coercive Power

Potential to influence others through administration of negative sanctions/ removal of positive events.

Informal coercion can change the attitudes and behaviors of others
-Superior's temperamental outbursts

-Billy Beane demonstrates temperamental outburst

-Stimulate an outcome

​ Attitudes, drive

​Coercive Power

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between coaching and mentoring?

• Coaching is about improving specific skills, while mentoring is about overall development
• Coaching and mentoring are the same
• Coaching is about overall development, while mentoring is about improving specific skills
• Coaching is done by a professional, while mentoring can be done by anyone

Multiple Choice

The first clip is a form of

• Coaching

• Mentoring

Multiple Choice

What did Billy do to demonstrate coercion?

• Apologizes to the team

• Hit a player with a bat

• Knock over the gatorade jug

Multiple Choice

What is the most common form of coercion?

• Threats

• Temperamental Outbursts

• Demotion

Multiple Choice

Coercion is used to stimulate an outcome.

• True

• False

​The goal of this type of leadership is to serve.

Instead of putting the needs of the company first, they put the needs of the employees.

Servant Leadership

Fill in the Blank

What did Billy Beane ask to be free for the players?

Multiple Choice

What is Servant Leadership?

• Leader does whats best for the followers

• Leaders does whats best for the company

• Both

• Followers play an active and important role in the leadership process

• There is a relatedness between leadership and followership

• Followers' expectations, personality traits, levels of competence, and motivation affect the leadership process

​Followers

​Dynamic change in Leader & Follower Relationship

Multiple Choice

How did Billy Beane's relationship with his players change?

• He had more hands off approach

• It did not change much

• He got more engaged and talked with players directly

Multiple Choice

How does Billy Beane's data driven approach impact the teams performance?

• They reject Billy Beane's approach and refuse to adapt to his unconventional ways

• They immediately embrace Billy Beane's data driven approach to building the roster

• After some initial skepticism and resistance they embrace it as the team starts winning and finding success

Fill in the Blank

Who plays an active and important role in the leadership process?

​Transformational Leadership

Changing the status quo by appealing to followers' values and their sense of higher purpose

Inspired and motivated individuals to reach their full potential and strived to achieve the results they were aiming for

Multiple Choice

How was transformational leadership shown in the clip?

• They started getting on base

• Inspired and motivated players to work together and reach their potential

• They hit more home runs

Multiple Choice

How did transformational leadership impact the "Moneyball" approach in professional sports, especially concerning financial outcomes?

• Primarily focused on financial strategies and cost cutting measures, neglecting the importance of talent and player performance

• No impact in sports and the success of the approach was solely attributed to data driven approach without any leadership involved

• Encouraged culture of innovation, collaboration, and adaptability within organization allowing teams to maximize their financial resources efficiently

The ability to influence others by providing rewards

​Reward Power

Learning from Experience

Leaders can adapt, reflect, and act in efforts to achieve set goals.

Billy Beane learns from his experiences, and adapts his strategies based on the outcomes by making data-driven decisions.

Multiple Choice

What's happening in the clip?

• John uses reward power to try and buy Billy

• John uses reward power to disregard how baseball is played

• John uses reward power to both disregard and try to buy Billy

Multiple Choice

Why did Beane reject the offer?

• He didn't want to leave the Oakland Athletics

• Not enough money

• He didn't like the Red Sox owner

• The Red Sox wanted to implement traditional scouting

Multiple Choice

What is Reward Power?

• Power to influence by providing a bonus

• Power given to someone who has the ability to provide consequences

• Power given to someone based on role

• None of the above