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The extra 2% : (Record no. 98010)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 16603598
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20170909095628.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 110107s2011 nyu b 000 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780345517654 (hardback)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780345517739 (ebook)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency PK-LaUMT
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 331.8811796357
Edition number 22
Item number KER-E
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Keri, Jonah
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The extra 2% :
Remainder of title how Wall Street strategies took a major league baseball team from worst to first /
Statement of responsibility, etc Jonah Keri ; foreword by Mark Cuban
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Ballantine Books ;
-- ESPN Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi, 253 p. ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens--the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team's Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs partners Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals--and prevail. Together with "boy genius" general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the "devil" from the team's nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game's intangibles--that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one--they were able to deliver to Tampa something that Billy Beane's "Moneyball" had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life's passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Baseball
General subdivision Economic aspects.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sports franchises
General subdivision Economic aspects
Geographic subdivision Florida
-- Tampa bay.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Books
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