As a male who has honored and animated “feminine leadership energy” as the domiinant mode of interaction for over forty years, I tend to come down on the side of the Inside Game. Ever since I read Sally Helgesen’s seminal work in “The Female Advantage” I have believed (as Gerzema found) that feminine values: cooperation, long-term thinking, flexibility, collaboration, vulnerability…combined with strong will, competence and drive…will indeed rule the world eventually. I refer to it as learning to lead from your “Inner Other” – honoring both the yin or the yang within, and leveraging both masculine and feminine.

Here’s a blog I recently wrote on the subject: http://www.altrupreneur.com/?page_id=550

I think you might enjoy the blog. Let me know if it resonates. Would love to connect on Linkedin if you are so inclined.

Blessings,
Bernie Nagle
Altrupreneur.com