224: Richard Taurima - Leaders Need to Focus on What Matters
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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\\u2019s experience has always been in sales and wealth creation. He run\\u2019s 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\\u2019s 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\\u2019s learn from Richard about how leaders need to focus on what matters.
On this episode:
- Get a look at Richard\\u2019s background in sales within companies and how wealth creation defined his early career
- As leaders, you need to understand and catch the current waves, for example, look at the growing trend of decentralization
- Learn how Richard entered the leadership space through relationship building
- How 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 it
- Understanding people takes understanding their backgrounds
- Your staff is the lifeblood of your cash flow - the wrong staff give the wrong results
- Learn from leaders that are current and that are global
- Technology is the norm now, leaders can\\u2019t and should not operate without it
- Every new situation is an opportunity to do things a new way
Tweetable Quotes:
\\u201cLeadership is about making people account\\u2026 The result is that your customers are happy, they\\u2019re staff are happy, which is your staff, and you\\u2019re making money.\\u201d - Richard Taurima
\\u201cAny leader needs to understand what\\u2019s happening in the world\\u2026\\u201d - Richard Taurima
\\u201cAn entrepreneur is all about creativity and it\'s all about meeting customer expectations. It\'s all about finding the opportunity within the opportunities.\\u201d - Richard Taurima
Connect with Richard on LinkedIn.
Resources:
Email: denis@leadingchangepartners.com
Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/
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