Building Better
A book by Mark Newman
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Who’s Holding
the Broom?
For most of my career, the best advice I got didn’t come from a course or a conference. It came from other builders — the ones who had already made the mistake I was about to make.
This chapter is about the thing that holds good builders back the longest: the moment you have to stop doing everything yourself. Read it free, before the book is released.
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01 — The idea behind it
The best advice I’ve had came from other builders.
The broom is still there. The question is whether you’re the one still holding it.
— Mark Newman, Newmark Constructions
02 — A word from Mark
Why I wrote it down.
I’ve run Newmark since 2009, building high-end residential and architectural homes across Sydney. I have made most of the mistakes this chapter is about — mostly the same one, in different forms.
For a long time I thought the answer was to work harder and stay across every part of the business. It wasn’t. The builders I have watched get ahead are the ones who learned to hand over control without letting the standard slip.
I wrote Chapter 14 for the builder who is still the first on site and the last to leave — and who knows, quietly, that it can’t keep going that way.
03 — What’s in the chapter
Three things to look out for.
Why holding on feels safer
The instinct to stay across everything is understandable. It is also the thing that caps how far the business can go.
What changes when you let go
Handing over control isn’t about caring less. It is about building something that holds the standard when you’re not in the room.
How to do it without losing quality
The practical side: what to hand over, in what order, and how to know it is actually working.
04 — The book
From the book, Building Better.
Building Better is about lifting the standard in residential construction — design matters, details matter, and the people who do this well should be able to build a business around it, not just a job.
Chapter 14 is one part of that. The full book is on its way — this is your early look at one chapter.
The broom is still there.
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