CHAPTER 9

RECRUIT LIKE BILLY BEANE

Look for Talent Where Others Are Not

Please help others rise. Greatness comes not from a position but from helping build the future. We have an obligation to pull others up.

INDRA NOOYIIndian American businesswoman, former CEO of PepsiCo and now Board Director1

Savvy sports coaches don’t recruit solely from top college programs, expensive camps, or well-known high schools. They head out to the public playgrounds and recreational fields to scout their next talented players.

Billy Beane, executive vice president of the Oakland Athletics, revolutionized methods of evaluating Major League Baseball (MLB) players and recruits. The subject of Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game and the ...

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