How Lendlease rides a global property market
As residential property markets have globalised, Lendlease has moved away from Australia, away from apartments and into telecommunications.
As residential property markets have globalised, Lendlease has moved away from Australia, away from apartments and into telecommunications.
Lendlease's journey to becoming an $11.5 billion global giant began in 1951 when a young, ambitious Dutch engineer boarded a plane for Sydney.
Lendlease's head of Europe Dan Labbad came from a "working class" background in Western Sydney. "You have to lead from the bottom," he says.
Lendlease's main bean counter and then its chief executive, Steve McCann, was a fresh-faced bookie's clerk.
Lendlease's head of Americas Denis Hickey has some advice for his younger self: listen more, find out more, ask more questions.
Lendlease head of Asia Tony Lombardo says he had no experience working in property just 10 years ago.
Lendlease's chief financial officer Tarun Gupta joined the global property giant as a graduate and has had four "careers" there so far.
Lendlease's first big step on the road to becoming a global powerhouse started when it decided to shrink.
Lendlease is going it alone in the world's second-largest economy, breaking into the rapidly growing aged care market.
More than half of Lendlease's $55.9 billion pipeline of urbanisation projects are now in Europe.
For a newly-built business precinct like Barangaroo, the sustainability bar should be higher than for existing office stock.
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Asia might be on Macquarie's doorstep, but the group is playing the long game in the region where "the rise of cities along with the rise of capital" will change the face of business over the next century.
Macquarie's culture is very much based on a "tough love" approach. A second defining characteristic is Macquarie's ever-vigilant watch for bargains.
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