Joshua Taylor has made his transition from Entrepreneur to Intrapreneur and back again several times across his career. Joshua is the Integrator/General Manager at Business Blueprint a world leading business training and education company who support business owners to create the business and life of their dreams.

Joshua realized he has a unique superpower as an integrator and that he loves being the person who makes ideas a reality, turning a visionaries chaos into calm. Joshua shares lessons from his own journey to becoming a truly outstanding 2IC.

Joshua Taylor shared in this episode:

• His experience of building a business and realizing that he is not the visionary, but rather someone who can execute a vision

• The visionary/integrator relationship, what it is, why it's so important for any business.

• What it means to have operations excellence in a business.

• The difference between intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship and what they mean

• The difficulties he faced when deciding to step away from his business and the impact it had on his ego

• How he works inside a entrepreneurial business

• Why he is driven to help business owners

• The importance of alignment in both personal and professional life, asking oneself if they are in alignment with their goals and aspirations

• How it is important to be aligned to the business purpose.

• What operational excellence means – delivering seamless systems intentionally for every element of the business

• The meanings of visionary and integrator which he originally learned from Michael Gerber in eMyth Revisited

• The importance of the purpose and intention…. operating with excellence

• How to systematise the business - identify the steps, and fine-tune them / systemise them.

• A tough challenge he had to overcome

• How he built a business with 15 team members, 300 customers.

• How during his Mothers breast cancer, he had to leave the business.

• An important lesson “The business didn’t fail, I did”… and how it was a great teaching moment for him, but helped him realise he was the integrator not a visionary.

• An important thought “This didn’t work… what will?”

• How his super power is in delivering

• His life changing question: Alignment:  Am I in alignment with where I am going?

• And much more…

Resources Mentioned In The Show:

• Recommendation of books:

  • Traction By Geno Wickman:

https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Get-Grip-Your-Business/dp/1936661837/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3MDM3CEK3ABTJ&keywords=traction+by+gino+wickman&qid=1700718803&s=books&sprefix=traction+by+geno+wickman%2Cstripbooks%2C381&sr=1-1

• Rocket Fuel:

https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Fuel-audiobook/dp/B012HJOBRY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XKAVRK08MN5Y&keywords=rocket+fuel&qid=1700718541&s=books&sprefix=rocket+fuel%2Cstripbooks%2C254&sr=1-1

• eMyth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/dp/0887307280

• www.businessblueprint.com

• Instagram - joshtaylortalks

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