A new book may help many women close the gap between dreams and success. Called "Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now" (Wiley, $21.95), it shows how the most successful women do not subvert their feminine qualities. In fact, they rely on them, says author Vickie L. Milazzo.

One of Inc.'s Top 10 entrepreneurs, Milazzo is credited with revolutionizing a woman-dominated industry by pioneering a new profession.

Over the past two decades, she built her company from an idea and a hundred dollars in the bank to a 27-person business with annual revenues of 12 million dollars-triple what it was just five years ago. As the founder and president of Vickie Milazzo Institute, she has trained, mentored, educated and inspired tens of thousands of professional women.

In the book, Milazzo helps women of all ages to discover, harness and amplify their 10 inherent strengths. Rather than suggesting that women subvert their inherently feminine qualities to succeed, Milazzo encourages women to employ what she calls their "feminine forces"-intuition, vision, agility, endurance and more.