Finding a Common Interest
The Story of Dick Dusseldorp and Lend Lease

This book tells the story of Australia's most admired blue-chip corporation and its founder.

Lindie Clark (Author)

9780521039949, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 August 2007

320 pages, 25 b/w illus.
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg

This important book demonstrates how businesses can operate both profitably and ethically - by finding a common interest between all those involved in their operations. It does so through the example of Dick Dusseldorp, founder of Lend Lease, one of Australia's most admired blue-chip corporations. Arriving in postwar Australia with only one construction contract and a handful of workers on his company's books, Dusseldorp built Lend Lease into a billion-dollar property development and financial services concern. Widely respected for his business success, Dusseldorp was equally well known for his commitment to sharing the fruits of that success with the workers, shareholders and clients of Lend Lease, and the communities where the company conducted its business. Not only does this book tell the story of Lend Lease and its founder, through them it demonstrates how business can be done inclusively - and so provides a workable model for corporate governance.

Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Production management: from tendering to design and construction
2. Labour management: redefining work, employment and industrial relations
3. Business development: a new approach to wealth creation
4. Ethical business practice and corporate governance
5. Organisational overhaul: the acquisition and transformation of the MLC
6. Creative negotiation: green bans, sewers and strata title
7. Building communities: from suburbia to the snowfields and back
8. Building for the future: leaving something behind
Epilogue
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Educational: Geography [YQG], Urban & municipal planning [RPC], Business ethics & social responsibility [KJG], Business & management [KJ], Economic history [KCZ]