" Moneyball " was first released at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada on September 9, 2011. The protagonists are Brian Bitt, Jonah Hill and many other stars. The story of
tells the story of Billy, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics who was short of funds. Through a new business philosophy, he broke the rules and led a group of "waste" players to achieve an epic 20-game winning streak in American professional baseball and continue to advance towards the world championship. s story.
The ending of the film is that Billy rejected the Boston Red Sox's annual salary of US$12.5 million, which is also the most expensive annual salary for the team general manager in the history of professional baseball, and returned to the Oakland Athletics to continue coaching and pursue his love for baseball. The reason why
is arranged in this way is that the director hopes that through the traditional concept of "manpower superposition" and the modern perspective of "knowing people and making good use of them", we can definitely find the optimal model of human resource allocation, and strongly opposes the use of huge resource consumption to obtain business. success.
In the ending of the film, The words of the boss of the Boston Red Sox support this point of view: "If all the owners don't build the team according to your way, they will become extinct dinosaurs. In October After that, I could only sit on the sofa and watch the Boston Red Sox win the world championship. "
The Boston Red Sox took advantage of Billy's new method of "resource allocation optimization" and combined it with their own strong other resource advantages, but because they did not. Billy joined, so they had to wait until 2 years later before the Red Sox won the first world championship in the professional baseball league since 1918.
Sports-themed movie, this movie focuses on daily team management and operation. Just using historical event videos to set off the atmosphere, the entire film shows how Billy, as a leader, arranged his troops in the face of high pressure from competition, how to turn danger into safety, how to overcome difficulties, and step by step towards success. Director
has successfully made this film a feast for business management enthusiasts.
To optimize the allocation of human resources, a team is not simply the sum of manpower.
1. Traditional teamwork means gathering a group of highly capable people to achieve success.
So is the tradition of professional baseball games.
Scout selects relatively comprehensive players to participate in the game. Each player can run, jump, hit, and is good-looking. Simply put, they are all people who can do all the work. In fact, this in itself no problem.
This is like a tug-of-war competition. Everyone is the most powerful strongman, so if you put the most powerful strongmen together, you will certainly win the tug-of-war.
To recruit such a group of excellent players, it is necessary to spend huge salaries to buy players, which is very normal.
The video begins The New York Yankees play against the Oakland Athletics. The Yankees' players have a total annual salary of US$115 million, while the Oakland Athletics' players have an annual salary of US$39 million. The player salary of Billy's team is only the Yankees. A little more than a third of the team.
This game was on October 21, 2001, in the Professional Baseball League division playoffs. Billy's Oakland Athletics club team was eliminated by the Yankees. Because the Yankees have a lot of money and a lot of good players, so winning is a natural thing.
Rich clubs win the game. This is the way to win in the professional baseball league, because if you have money, you can buy as many good players as you want.
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The entire professional baseball game has entered the Matthew effect .
The Matthew effect originates from the "New Testament-The Gospel of Matthew". It is said that the king gave three servants a piece of silver each and asked them to do business. After returning from a foreign trip, he asked the three servants how the business turned out. The first servant used one ingot of silver to earn 10 ingots of silver, and the king rewarded him with 10 castles to manage. The second servant used one ingot of silver to earn 5 ingots of silver, and the king rewarded him with 5 castles. The third servant, worried about losing the silver, wrapped the silver and carried it with him. When there was no business, the king took the silver and gave it to the first servant.
Whatever is small, take it all away; whatever is large, give more to him. The more, the better.Specifically in the field of business operations, the Matthew Effect means that the larger the scale of a company, the greater its income will be under the same return on investment.
If a company cannot grow big in one field, it needs to constantly look for new fields and obtain more profits in order to get rid of the Matthew Effect.
Billy faced failure and hoped to find new ways to make breakthroughs. But the team appeared uncooperative.
2. A group of people with equal abilities may not necessarily make the work go smoothly, and cooperation may lead to lack of cooperation.
If teamwork wants to win, it must have a sense of cooperation.
But Billy's existing scouting team does not cooperate with Billy. Billy believes that the club must come up with new methods now, otherwise it will definitely fail. However, the scouts still use their original experience and intuition to select outstanding players with comprehensive abilities.
Billy and the team showed a sense of non-cooperation, and the entire team fell into a low-performance state and was unable to solve the current difficulties and problems.
Why is the sense of cooperation so important?
For example:
A company is recruiting employees and has to choose two from three applicants. The topic is: "Suppose 3 people go on a desert adventure and the car breaks down on the way back. You can only take 4 things back. The specific things are as follows:
mirror, knife, tent, water, matches, rope and compass, and the tent only There is room for two people, and there is only one bottle of mineral water, which is only enough for two people to drink.
Man A chooses: knife, tent, water, matches, because guarding against others is essential, and having a knife in hand can prevent someone from trying. It’s not right, because the tent is only big enough for two people, what if someone harms me?
Otome and C-man chose: water, tent, matches and rope because water is a necessity, although it is only enough for two people, but it can be saved. Drinking. I believe that the three of us can survive until the end. Although the tent is only big enough for two people to sleep in, matches are also essential, and the rope can tie the three of them together because the wind is so strong that they cannot be seen. When we are together, we will not be separated.
Man A has no sense of cooperation and is eliminated.
In today's society, the possibility of career progress by working alone no longer exists.
If you want to achieve something, you must find like-minded people. Colleagues cooperate with each other, and the benefits of the team mean personal development. If a company gathers a group of people with equal abilities, it may not necessarily make the work go smoothly, because if something goes wrong, there will be mutual blame, and there will be low performance or even zero. The status of performance.
Employees must cooperate with each other, have a reasonable division of labor, and clear responsibilities, so that they can use their talents and work together to get things done.
In the video, the scouts go their own way and choose excellent players, but Billy said he has no money to buy them. What should we do? The scouts will continue to choose cheaper, less capable players, but everyone knows that these players will definitely not win the game, and it makes no sense. But the scouts just want to follow experience. This way, even if the Oakland Athletics Club fails, they can continue to work as scouts at other clubs.
At this point, Billy saw through the scouts' thoughts and decided to find a way on his own.
3. Billy believed that human resources were limited. Yes, when you don’t have enough human resources, you need to optimize.
For example, if you don’t have enough capital, you need to optimize.
What is optimization?
To put it simply, it is to use new technologies or measures to get the most value. If you earn 10 yuan for 10 yuan, can you still earn 10 yuan for 1 yuan?
Billy met the "genius" Peter Brand and told him that the new method does exist.
Peter Brad believes that. One of the biggest problems in the current baseball league is that success is wrongly defined. The traditional manpower superposition model does not necessarily lead to victory in baseball games. If you want to win, you must know people and make good use of them. To put it simply, there are three points:
The first point is that to win a baseball game, you first need to score points.
Baseball games are divided into points. One team counts each offense and defense as one inning. Scores can only be scored when attacking. Generally, there are nine innings (occasionally overtime). The total score of the 9 innings is added up. Each inning can be returned. The number of players who reach home plate is counted as the number of runs scored in the inning, and those who cannot come back are counted as no more.
The second point is that if you want to score, the players need to have a sufficient on-base rate.
After a batter hits the ball and safely runs through the four bases on the field in order, it counts as one point when he returns to home plate.
The third point is, whoever has a higher on-base percentage should buy these players, and these players are all underestimated by traditional thinking.
Currently, the players with high on-base percentages are not comprehensive in ability and even not good-looking. They are underestimated by coaches in traditional baseball leagues. Therefore, if Billy follows the new method, he can form a championship team at a low cost. Simply put,
means that you can earn 10 yuan even if you spend 1 yuan.
If you don’t understand baseball, in basketball terms, you don’t always have to be tall and can dunk. In fact, even short three-pointers can win the game.
Billy was attracted by Brand's method, thinking that this was the new method he dreamed of, and decided to go all out to implement this new idea with Brand. The results were expected. The Oakland Athletics, under the guidance of the new method, achieved an epic 20-game winning streak. No one has beaten so far.
Only by optimizing resource allocation and knowing people and utilizing them well can we achieve enterprise development.
The most important resource in the 21st century is talent, but the way to win is to "know people and make good use of them."
The key point is whether a leader can have the mind to use talents. Simply put, only a people-oriented leadership like Carnegie can achieve the development of an enterprise.
Carnegie said: "Even if you take away all my factories, equipment, markets and funds, but only keep my technical staff and organizational staff, four years later, I will still be the King of Steel.
Becoming the King of Steel, Carnegie is very fond of knowing people. There are three explanations for making good use of it.
·1. Understand the expertise of talents through goals.
Carnegie does not understand metallurgical technology, but he can always find people who are proficient in metallurgical technology and are good at invention and creation. Only then, due diligence is very important.
For example:
The founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty Liu Bang , although he was born in a gangster, he knew how to identify talents. As he said: "Thousands of miles can be won by strategizing." Outside, I am not as good as the ovary. I am not as good as Xiao He in controlling the country, nurturing the people, and providing them with wages without running out of food. Even with an army of millions, we will win in battle and capture in attack. I am not as good as Han Xin. "
Liu Bang knew exactly what he wanted to do, so he knew what talents he should choose.
There were 19 rebel armies, and only Liu Bang really wanted to destroy Qin .
Because Liu Bang really wanted to destroy Qin, this was his goal , so we pay attention to the three things of "strategizing, continuous supply, and victory with millions of troops", and thus have the most accurate understanding of Zhang Liang, Xiao He and Han Xin
And these talents, except Xiao He, Zhang Lianghe. Han Xin was a "trash" abandoned by Xiang Yu, which shows that Xiang Yu's goal was not to destroy Qin, and he eventually lost people's hearts and committed suicide in Wujiang.
2. Put talents in the most important position
We compete with our opponents. On the surface, it’s about products, but essentially it’s about the competition of the entire organizational structure.
The quality of people in the same position, from channel to sales, from senior management to grassroots, depends on whether the person in each of our positions can outperform each position in the rival manufacturer.
Back to Liu Bang's example:
Liu Bang is a leader. In addition to identifying talents, he also appreciates talents very much, never envies talents, and dares to put Xiao He in the position of prime minister, below one person and above ten thousand people. He dared to put Zhang Liang in the position of military advisor, but he was inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. He even dared to put Han Xin in the position of general, inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people.
Talents can only maximize their talents by being in an important position and doing important things in this position.
If you let Xiao He be the general, let Han Xin be the prime minister, and let Zhang Liang be the prime minister, then the results can be imagined. The positions in the
organizational structure are the collective names for what to do.
job design itself is a means of optimizing resource allocation: how to improve the organization's combat effectiveness and execution capabilities and maximize output value through organizational structure design with limited human resources.
Simply put, there are four requirements for organizational structure design:
Requirement 1: The goal determines the important positions of the organizational structure.
requirement 2: Strategy determines the power of and for important positions.
requirement 3: Tactics determine the power of using and the responsibility of .
requirement 4: Technology determines the responsibility for implementing the performance of and .
In "Wen Tao-Six Shou", Jiang Ziya talked to King Zhou Wu about the importance of organizational structure and position design.
The monarch should not give the Three Treasures to others. If he gives them to others, the monarch will lose his authority.
King Wen asked: "What are the three treasures you are referring to?"
Taigong replied: "Great farmers, great workers, and great merchants, these three things are called the Three Treasures." If farmers are organized and gathered in one place to produce, food will be sufficient; if craftsmen are organized and gathered in one place to produce, tools will be sufficient; if merchants are organized and merchants are gathered together to trade, goods will be sufficient.
Put the right people in the position of the Three Treasures, then the Three Treasures will develop and improve, and the country will have long-term peace and stability. ”
3. Only by trusting people in important positions can important tasks be accomplished.
Put them in important positions, do important things, and grant great power. If you don’t trust people, you will fall short of your achievements. You are not really knowing people and making good use of them. It's not that many people don't have the ability to do things, but that they don't have enough trust.
How important is trust for talents in important positions?
For example:
In the early years of the Warring States period, Wei Wenhou sent General Le Yang to send troops. The crusade against Zhongshan Kingdom was a strategy to achieve the goal of domination.
Leyang arrived in front of the Zhongshan Kingdom and adopted the tactic of "siege but not attack"
but because of Leyang's son . Leshu was an official in Zhongshan State. Wei ministers believed that this tactic was adopted for fear that their sons would be killed, and they wrote to Wei Wenhou to report and impeach Leyang. However, Wei Wenhou sent people to the front line to condolences Leyang and established a foundation for Leyang.
The king of Zhongshan Kingdom, who had been besieged for a long time, had no choice but to kill Leyang's son. Leyang immediately ordered an attack on the city, and the Zhongshan Kingdom was destroyed. The king committed suicide.
After Leyang returned to the court after winning, he was a little carried away. Marquis Wen remained silent and ordered two boxes to be brought to Leyang. After Leyang opened them, he found that they were all memorials exposing his failure to attack the city.
After reading these memorials, Leyang knelt down in front of Marquis Wen. , said: "Without the king's clear observation and listening, I could not have broken the Zhongshan Kingdom, and I would have become a ghost under the sword. The conquest of Zhongshan Kingdom is not due to me, but to the king. Because your Majesty can ignore rumors and completely trust me "
" to entrust you with important tasks, then I must support you and believe in you! "Then Marquis Wei Wen also rewarded Le Yang heavily.
The sustainable development of an enterprise is the optimal allocation of people, finances and materials.
Good products, good hardware equipment, and strong financial resources are of course indispensable resources for a company. .
But the real pillar that supports the development of an enterprise is still talent, because finance and material cannot bring about any new changes. Only with the full combination of people, finance and material can an enterprise have full development potential.
Talent is an enterprise. The most fundamental resource, the most important resource. If the company wants to maintain its vitality, it must select talents, know people and make good use of them. Knowing people and making good use of them is not simple, it is very difficult, because it requires the following three points:
1. Through goals. Understand the expertise of talents.
The goal determines what needs to be done. Only when you figure out what to do can you find talents with this ability.
2. Put talents in the most important position.
An enterprise is not formed by one person working alone. The strongest people must be placed in important positions, so that the interests of the enterprise can be guaranteed.
3. Important tasks must be accomplished only if you have the courage to hire people for important positions.
The process of doing important things may be very long, with many changes during the period. Without trust, it is difficult to persevere.
Just like in the movie Moneyball, Billy and Peter Brand, at the critical moment of the game, relied on their persistence and trust in the goal to withstand suspicion from all sides, overcome difficulties, and finally won the epic game. victory.
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