Table of Contents

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.

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

About the Author

Lindie Clark spent many hours interviewing Dick Dusseldorp before he passed away in April 2000. She had extensive access to internal company documents in researching this book. She has been heavily involved in public policy and management as both student and practitioner and was the recipient of a Harkness Fellowship to Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1997.