210: How To Operate A Successful Business With Joshua Taylor & Kevin Bees, Profit Maximisation Expert

Life Changing Questions For Business Owners

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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