Kawasaki’s take is that women are better at objectively judging business models because men are “genetically flawed” in that they’re predisposed to approve any idea that would compete with a product or service due to an inclination to “kill things.”
I hear what he’s saying but you could just as easily flip this assertion around to say that because women lack this instinct to kill (something that’s hugely debatable in and of itself), this makes them not neutral judges, but actually puts them at another extreme – they may overlook a great idea simply in order to avoid conflict or other unpleasant repercussions of competition. This is definitely more a vague theory than anything close to being a fact -- if Kawasaki is in fact serious. Sweeping assertions like the one very rarely end up being grounded in reality.
May 14, 2008 at 11:23am
Saabira Chaudhuri