The CEO Who Didn't Want the Job | Josh Britton

Josh Britton became CEO of imageOne without ever planning to. He'd spent years telling his wife, telling anyone who'd listen that he was a great number two and wanted to stay that way.But Rob and Joel asked him anyway.Rob Dubay showed up at a peer forum to talk about mindful leadership and walk a room full of executives through a meditation. Josh was on the list of companies he'd been researching. A year of mentorship later, the opportunity materialized on its own.What we covered:→ Why imageOne eliminated the two-week notice and how they actually execute it→ Two second lean: where it came from, how they run it daily, and what a good lean actually looks like→ Open book finance: how a near-loss year in 2013 cracked the company open→ Building a ten-year vision with the whole company without collapsing into consensus→ Running an automation startup inside a 35-year-old managed print companyJosh, thank you for being so open about everything! The imposter syndrome, the ripcord experiments, the lonely startup years before any of this.Chapters00:00 - Intro01:00 - Who Josh Britton is and how he ended up at imageOne03:25 - Mindful transitions: why they got rid of two weeks notice08:07 - imageOne's origin story: sold, bought back, and the decision to build something different11:19 - Small Giants, Tugboat Institute, and what it means to want to be great instead of big14:52 - Josh's path: consulting, the education nonprofit, and finding imageOne22:03 - Running a process automation startup inside a 35-year-old print company25:06 - The CEO who didn't want the job: imposter syndrome and the long handoff27:15 - How they build a ten-year vision with the whole company38:32 - Two second lean: what it is, how they run it every morning, and a real example54:00 - Why none of this is impulsive: experiments, ripcords, and getting buy-in59:22 - Open book finance: how a near-loss year changed everything01:04:42 - Family, kids, and what actually keeps him grounded ~~~Connect with Matthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mattloria/https://www.facebook.com/mattloriahttps://www.instagram.com/loriamatt/Prefer to Listen?https://pod.link/1742631726This episode is powered by Auxiom.Finally ready to outsmart your IT chaos?https://auxiom.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/auxiom-llc