Billy Beane leadership analysis………………………………3
Applied theories from the book……………………………..4 The skills Model………………………….. 4 Team leadership………………………….6 Path-Goal theory…………………………..6 Applied theories…………………………………………….6 McGregor 's Theory X & Theory Y managers ……7. Daniel Goleman 's Six Leadership Styles…………..8 Conclusion……………………………………………………8
References ……………………………………………………..9
Brief Summary of Moneyball: Moneyball is a movie about Oakland A 's General Manager Billy Beane who responsible of assemble the team after he lost his best player because of the team 's tight budget. So, Beane have to outsmart the rich teams to can compete with them. For that when he saw opportunity of adapting the moneyball theory on baseball that offered from Peter Brand, an Economics Graduate, which is a quantitative method (sabremetrics) of scouting players, a methodology employing a little used metric of "on base percentage" as key indicator of talent. So to solve the problem, they look to the problem differently in which rather to buy players or talents he buy wins, so o evaluate the player performance by a different methodology which is by percentage. and of course with new change, he faced a huge rejection from his team and from whole baseball industry. While he is solving the internal issues and emphasis acceptance of the method, the performance of the team decline and the rejection from the scouting team increased. So he took different approach which is threaten and punishment and emphasis change and adopting the new method with players by clarifying their tasks which ruslts with effective performance and the solving-problem skills of Billy Beane what makes him a good leader.
Billy Beane leadership analysis: Billy Beane follows the directing style in which cares about the productivity of
References: Brandon Guenette, May 2012, Moneyball, Francis Xavier University available from: https://www.google.com.sa/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.stfx.ca%2Fx2009%2Fx2009kck%2FBilly%2520Beane.docx&ei=UW-MUZv-BZPZ4QS2iIFA&usg=AFQjCNGe2Ttcn3_IPidXybQxgwDTCVq3sQ&sig2=5axqPdDV0kTuk9IR_V-MIQ Bolden,R. , Gosling, J., Marturano,A. and Dennison,P., June 2003, A review of leadership Theory and Competency Framwork, university of Exeter available from: http://www2.fcsh.unl.pt/docentes/luisrodrigues/textos/Lideran%C3%A7a.pdf Daniel Goleman, n.d, Daniel Goleman 's 6 leadership styles, Business Psychologists available form: http://www.psych-pcs.co.uk/Emotional_Intelligence_Daniel_Golemans_Leadership_Sty.pdf