Mastering the Art of Success
where we step outside our comfort zone and demonstrate our faith in
something bigger than we are.WRIGHT
In your opinion, is boldness and fearlessness the same thing or is
there a difference between the two?WARE
Boldness is foundational to being fearless. The other characteristics
th at s it on top of that foundation are wisdom, authenticity, vision, and
energy. The culminati on makes you a fearless leader. So it’s not one or
the other. It is true that without a foundation of boldness all the others
ar en’t as powerful. I like to say that together they spell the acronym,
BWAVE. In the voice of cartoon character Elmer Fudd, to be a fearless
leader, you have to BWAVE. The B in BWAVE is for boldness,
which takes first place.WRIGHT
As we think about your coaching career and your training sessions,
what makes your perspective unique?WARE
Most of my career was spent in corporate America less a few retail
st ints and an ear-piercing gig at the mall. In corporate America, words
like love, p assion, and embrace were considered soft terms and didn’t
seem to have a place. I was always authentic and confident enough to
have to keep those words in my conversations, in my arguments, in my
leadership style. I think it wasn’t so much the conversation, but the
finesse to appropriately challenge, to go against the status quo, and win
people over to a new way of thinking about something they’ve seen a
million times before.
To do that and leave people whole and feeling really good about the
conversation is s uccess because I’ve handled them in a way that still
lets them be completely human. Maya Angelou who said, “People will
forget what you said, they won’t even remember what you’ve done but
they’ll never ever forget how you made them f eel.” My personable