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Here's my own short list of such attributes:

• Women practise improvisation skills with much greater ease than men.
• Women are more self-determined and most trust-sensitive than men.
• Women appreciate and depend upon their intuition more than men do.
• Women, unlike men, focus naturally on empowerment (rather than on "power")
• Women understand and develop relationships with greater facility than men.

One difference in particular throws a spotlight on why the New Economy favours women. Namely: Women are far less "rank-conscious" than men.

The Bedrock Rules of the New Economy

Shout good-bye to "command and control!"

Shout good-bye to "knowing one's place!"

Shout good-bye to hierarchy!

Guys like rules. They like commanding and controlling. They like "knowing their place". They like hierarchical structures and the certainties associated therewith. (Hey, you can trace this instinct directly back to the cave). Such structures exist not just because of "organizational needs", but rather because hierarchy and male thinking go hand-in-glove - and because men have always (until now) dominated organizations. But all of that is changing. The "organizational needs" of new enterprise are increasingly consonant with the female side of the "male-female difference" divide.

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