10 Best Business Books for Builders
Checkout these 10 books for builders to help you grow your vision, your business, your profits and your team – successfully (most of them are audio books).
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This list of transformational books includes some big picture stuff, systems stuff (and more).
Each will dramatically improve the leadership for home builders (or any business).
Most importantly though:
You can listen to these books, rather than read them.
You can get them online with service such as audible meaning you can listen to them onsite, driving between jobs, going for a walk or even lying on the beach.
Here goes:
If you’re like me, its easy to feel like you’re being pulled in 100 directions all at once, struggling to focus on the order of tasks to move your building business forward.
This insightful book helps you prioritise the tasks that are most important to take the next step.
Just as you build a house from the ground up, Fix This Next steps you through logical steps to grow your business.
If you need process and system in your business, the E-Myth is one of the originals for small business.
It helps you understand why and how to create processes and systems. It’s a ‘how to’ for those who want more predictable outcomes (and a life).
The systems are like recipes for achieving the outcomes you want.
3. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
One of the most popular business books of all time, it teaches a mindset that ensures you and those around you succeed.
It challenges you to become the best you can be.
In fact, many read it, then re-read it years later.
It’s rich with awesome advice about the way you treat yourself and others in business.
4. Builders Guide: 101 Expert Tips for Builders Success
Condenses 100 specialist tips from proven, industry experts to empower you to run your building firm, the way YOU want it to run.
It helps you solve the curly questions most builders’ qualifications don’t traditionally cover.
It’s a short read, too. You’ll learn from industry specialists how to grow & scale your building firm, boost sales, improve your cashflow, and manage stable, happy teams.
These industry-based tips will enable you to free you up your time to focus on more important, income generating tasks – without the stress.
An oldie but a goodie.
It’s easy to run around in circles working ‘hard’.
Instead, this book shows you how reflect upon what you want to achieve, develop a plan and achieve it – by working smart.
As they say, aggregating our habits creates the outcome.
This book shows you how to make changes in your business (and life) that stick by picking apart the human motivations of habits – and the outcomes they deliver.
How are you truly different to your competitors?
If you don’t have a differentiation (USP), you’re doomed to fierce pricing in competitive markets, under-stated bank accounts and a high stress work life.
Instead, do something different for which you become known – as an expert.
Then, the cash flows freely.
This is an old book, with some outdated examples, but the teachings are gold.
8. Blue Oceans
Similar to differentiating, find a ‘blue ocean’ with a new market, new speciality, new technology that’s got very few competitors.
Do something different.
This book shows you how to escape the bloodbath of competition so you can carve out your own market. Your own niche. Your own success.
If you feel like you’re always under pricing pressure, this books a must.
9 & 10. Two books written specifically for builders in our part of the world are:
- The Successful Builders Toolkit by Mick Hawes
- Million Dollar Builder by Kurt Hegetschweiler
Both these guys live and breath business coaching for builders so if you’re starting your growth journey, they’re both a helpful read.
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- Transform Your Building Business in 43 Mins (webinar)
- How (& Why) to Charge for First Client Meetings
- Take a Free Trial of ProCalc
- Stop All Free Client Meetings – Charge Upfront
- Want more tips like these? Attend the Webinar: Work Smarter, Not Harder
Richard Armstrong is a former registered builder who recently interviewed hundreds of experienced Australian builders to identify how they best manage clients, budgets and profitability.
