Our Wildest Dreams: Women Entrepreneurs Making Money, Having Fun, Doing Good. - book reviews

Washington Monthly, Nov, 1992 by Tom Peters

Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

Some women (let alone men) bristle at the idea of women's ways of managing, and even call the notion harmful. "We finally mastered the ways of business," they say, "and now you're pushing us to acknowledge ideas that the old-boy network calls flaky." I can see their point, though I disagree with it. First-generation women in management, like it or not, had to master the intricacies of the National Football League's 3-4 defenses and basebali's sacrifice fly rule in order to gain acceptance. But the new generation of women managers--and women business owners---is at the point where it can take its own strengths seriously and straight to the bank.

--Tom Peters