Newt Gingrich believes in and recommends Moneyball.

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I saw Newt speak on my campus tonight.

He said "if you want to learn about leadership in government, there are three books you should read. First, Leadership by Rudy G, [some other book by rudy's police commish], and Moneyball (he didn't say by Billy Beane, though ;-) ).

He said "These books all deal with metrics. People say metrics don't work. They say 'we can't do this because it's not baseball. It's not baseball' They bash it because it makes them uncomfortable. They'd rather lose and have it feel like baseball than win in a new way".