The entertaining film, Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt, tells the story of Billy Beane's revolutionary shift in the selection of baseball talent and the strategy used to construct a winning team. Impressions and "seasoned judgment" on the part of wizened veterans were replaced by empirical analysis of player skills and competencies. The result? Startling choices that disrupted the established order of baseball's "good ol' boy" network. IT leaders can learn some valuable lessons from the film.