What Separates Good Builders from the Rest (It's Less Technical Than You Think)

What does leadership look like when you've sat across from hundreds of builders, tradies, and business owners right across Australia?

Aaron "Az" Ng is the founder of The Good Builder, Australia's leading media and intelligence platform for the residential construction industry. After years of conversations with builders and trade business owners right across the country, Az knows exactly what separates the ones who last from the ones who don't.

In this conversation, we get into:

• Why low trust in the building industry is a business problem

• How relationships are the foundation of every great business

• Why ego is the first thing that must go if you want to lead well

Chapters:

0:00 Coming Up

1:56 Meet Aaron Ng, Co-Founder of The Good Builder

3:11 Essential Leadership Skills and Attitudes

6:47 No Such Thing as a “Great” Leader

7:56 Can You Be “Too Nice” as a Leader

9:25 Why Leaders Need to Know Themselves

12:25 How Poor Leadership is Creating Low Trust inConstruction

15:46 Why A Beautiful Home Isn’t Enough

17:34 The Mindset That Makes Trade Businesses Great

19:02 What Strong Performance and Relationships Needs

20:40 Leading Different People

23:08 How Listening and Empathy Improve YourLeadership

24:54 Conclusion

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