224: Richard Taurima - Leaders Need to Focus on What Matters

Now more than ever, leaders need to be creative enough to see the opportunity within the opportunities and empower their team to do the same in order to create wealth. Richard Taurima is an entrepreneur who loves to create new wealth ideas!Richard’s experience has always been in sales and wealth creation. He run’s a number of businesses in New Zealand and offshore with the belief that relationship building is critical to succeed with business partnerships, which include Corporates and Governments.He’s owned a number of companies and while many have failed most have scaled! His success seems to be founded on his ability to recognize a viable commercial opportunity and position the business to grow through coaching and mentoring them on how the other sides work.Definitely a lot of value packed into this episode, so jump right in and let’s learn from Richard about how leaders need to focus on what matters.On this episode:Get a look at Richard’s background in sales within companies and how wealth creation defined his early careerAs leaders, you need to understand and catch the current waves, for example, look at the growing trend of decentralizationLearn how Richard entered the leadership space through relationship buildingHow putting the right staff in place is vital to the success of the leadership culture of your organization/company/business and what makes a good leader Richard talks about the importance of technology and being multifaceted in your skill sets Leaders and entrepreneurs need to be creative in their approach to solving problems and focus on what matters Key Takeaways:You have to understand the current wave and catch itUnderstanding people takes understanding their backgrounds Your staff is the lifeblood of your cash flow - the wrong staff give the wrong resultsLearn from leaders that are current and that are global Technology is the norm now, leaders can’t and should not operate without itEvery new situation is an opportunity to do things a new wayTweetable Quotes:“Leadership is about making people account… The result is that your customers are happy, they’re staff are happy, which is your staff, and you’re making money.” - Richard Taurima“Any leader needs to understand what’s happening in the world…” - Richard Taurima“An entrepreneur is all about creativity and it's all about meeting customer expectations. It's all about finding the opportunity within the opportunities.” - Richard TaurimaConnect with Richard on LinkedIn. Resources:Email: [email protected]: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/