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The Penalty

The inside story of Ryan Tandy and rugby league's most notorious match-fixing scandal

By: Josh Massoud

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The Penalty

The inside story of Ryan Tandy and rugby league's most notorious match-fixing scandal

By: Josh Massoud

When NRL also-rans Canterbury and North Queensland met in August 2010, there appeared to be little at stake. Appearances can be deceptive. In the lead-up to the game, more than $30,000 was bet on North Queensland to open the scoring with a penalty goal. This was a plunge without peer; both brazen and bizarre. Bookmakers were so spooked they suspended markets before kick-off. But the potential damage had been done. The bagmen watched the opening minute in a sickened trance, as North Queensland received the ball--and then a penalty--in perfect kicking range. The opportunity came courtesy of Canterbury prop forward Ryan Tandy. Deep in debt at the time, Tandy was also at the centre of a compelling web of wagers. His flatmate, real estate agent, and manager all stood to profit from his actions. Only the pure unpredictability of sport stopped them from earning a major collect. While the punters walked away empty-handed, Tandy was placed in handcuffs soon afterwards. He would become the first person to be convicted for match-fixing in Australian history; a burden too heavy for one man to bear as Tandy's tragic and untimely death in April 2014 showed. Yet behind the sensational headlines, little is known about the real Ryan Tandy, the real story behind the match-fixing episode, or the police investigation that claimed his scalp. Senior News Corp sports reporter Josh Massoud spent three years reconstructing the events to deliver this gripping account from the darkest and most hidden recesses of Australian sport.

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304

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Allen & Unwin

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174343555X

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9781743435557

The Road to Reinvention

How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation

By: Josh Linkner

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The Road to Reinvention

How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation

By: Josh Linkner

Companies, communities, and individuals fall for many reasons, but one of the most common—and easily avoidable—is the failure to reinvent. When people and organizations rest on prior successes rather than driving purposeful transformation, they discover too late that they have lost their market position altogether to competitors and external forces. The most successful companies, brands, and individuals make reinvention a regular part of their business strategies. Transformation demands an ongoing process of discovery and imagination, and The Road to Reinvention lays out a systematic approach for continually challenging and reinventing yourself and your business. Venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur Josh Linkner identifies six elements in any business that are ripe for reinvention and shares examples, methods, and step-by-step techniques for creating deliberate, productive disruption. Throughout The Road to Reinvention, Linkner also explores the history—the great rise, unprecedented fall, and now rebirth—of his beloved hometown, Detroit. First rising to greatness as the result of breathtaking innovation, Detroit had generations of booming growth before succumbing to apathy, atrophy, and finally bankruptcy. Now, the city is rising from the ashes and driving sustainable success through an intense focus on reinvention. Linkner brings an insider's view of this incredible story of grit, determination, and creativity, sharing his perspective on Detroit's successes and setbacks as a profound example of large-scale organizational and personal transformation. Change is inevitable. You need to decide: Will you drive that change, or be driven away by it? Will you disrupt or be disrupted? By choosing to deliberately reimagine your own status quo, you can secure a strong future for both your company and your career.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470923431

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9780470923436

Big Little Breakthroughs

How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results

By: Josh Linkner

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Big Little Breakthroughs

How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results

By: Josh Linkner

The pressure to generate big ideas can feel overwhelming. We know that bold innovations are critical in these disruptive and competitive times, but when it comes to breakthrough thinking, we often freeze up. Instead of shooting for a $10-billion payday or a Nobel Prize, the most prolific innovators focus on Big Little Breakthroughs—small creative acts that unlock massive rewards over time. By cultivating daily micro-innovations, individuals and organizations are better equipped to tackle tough challenges and seize transformational opportunities. How did a convicted drug dealer launch and scale a massively successful fitness company? What core mindset drove LEGO to become the largest toy company in the world? How did a Pakistani couple challenge the global athletic shoe industry? What simple habits led Lady Gaga, Banksy, and Lin-Manuel Miranda to their remarkable success? Big Little Breakthroughs isn’t just for propeller-head inventors, fancy-pants CEOs, or hoodie-donning tech billionaires. Rather, it’s a surpassingly simple system to help everyday people become everyday innovators.

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Post Hill Press

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1642936782

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9781642936780

Whatever It Takes

Cronulla, Essendon, ASADA and the Full Story of the Supplements Scandal

By: Josh Massoud

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Whatever It Takes

Cronulla, Essendon, ASADA and the Full Story of the Supplements Scandal

By: Josh Massoud

On 7 February 2013, at a Canberra press conference that shocked the nation, the Australian Crime Commission announced the results of a wide-ranging probe into links between professional sporting bodies, prohibited substances and organised crime syndicates. A number of clubs across the NRL and AFL were under investigation, but the primary targets soon became clear: the Cronulla Sharks and the Essendon Bombers. The vital link between the two was the involvement of sports scientist Stephen Dank, and his role at these and other clubs quickly became the subject of intense scrutiny. In interviews Dank maintained that no illegal supplements had been administered to players, but investigations revealed serious governance failures at both clubs. Neither Essendon nor Cronulla could confirm precisely what substances had been given to its players. As the months rolled by, the scandal deepened. The two codes took opposite approaches to the investigations by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency (ASADA), with the AFL cooperating while the NRL stood back. The agency itself came under intense pressure from the players, the codes and the federal government, and all the while the man at the centre of the controversy - Stephen Dank - refused to give evidence to anyone. Sports journalist Josh Massoud has followed the 'supplements saga' from day one, and in Whatever It Takes he tells the complete and definitive version of this sorry episode. With unrelenting focus and fierce honesty, Massoud chronicles the scandal that marked the end of Australia's sporting innocence.

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Nero

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1863957375

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9781863957373

Sin Bin

The Untold Story of a True Footy Bad Boy

By: John Elias,Josh Massoud

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Sin Bin

The Untold Story of a True Footy Bad Boy

By: John Elias,Josh Massoud

Few rugby league players are more notorious than John Elias. The fearsome-looking forward not only intimidated his opponents on the field for first grade clubs like Canterbury, Wests and Balmain, he also led a double life off the pitch as a career criminal. After serving an eighteen-month sentence in Long Bay Goal at the age of sixteen, in his life away from football he became a part of the seamy Sydney underworld, working as a standover man and enforcer, and orchestrating illegal bookmaking rings. Loved by his friends and feared by his enemies, John Elias life story is one of the most colourful in Australian sport, as he careered between league at the highest level, and long years in jail for crimes as various as gun and drug dealing and the shooting of a hated rival.Sin Bin is John's incredible story. You'll never look at John Elias, or Rugby League, the same way again.

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Macmillan

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1405040211

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