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Here's a🧵on the story of how Oakland Athletics, the team with one of the lowest payrolls in Major League Baseball, consistently managed to make the playoffs and set an American League record of 20 consecutive wins in 2002.
Inspired by my favourite movie and the book #Moneyball.
Inspired by my favourite movie and the book #Moneyball.
The general manager of the Oakland A's, Billy Beane, who's at the helm of the events back in his youth, was a promising athlete and was described by the scouts based on their rudimentary judgement of the qualities such as a good face indicative of good character, athleticism
without paying any heed to statistics. Billy was offered a scholarship by Stanford University and was quite eager to study. Beane, a hot prospect was drafted by the New York Mets, and he signs the contract for $125k. Subsequently, Stanford withdraws the scholarship.
7 Paradoxal Singularities.
Self-confidence
Culture
Learnings
Hiring well
Firing fast
A Players
Growth
medium.com/human-machine/…
Self-confidence
Culture
Learnings
Hiring well
Firing fast
A Players
Growth
medium.com/human-machine/…
1/ Self-confidence. Great to fuel conviction, motivation, resilience. Make sure it doesn't undermine or annihilate humility, clarity of vision and focus. #attitude
2/ Culture. Fundamental for purpose, cohesion and success. Must be inclusive, progressive and open-minded to last sustainably. #team
