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This is a book about life, how to make the most of it, how to find your balance when you are working long days and trying to be happy and fulfilled. Mireille Guiliano has written the kind of book she wishes she had been given when starting out in the business world and had at hand along the way. She draws on her own experiences at the forefront of women in business to offer lessons, stories, helpful hints - and even recipes! - that can make the working world a happier and more satisfying part of a well-balanced life. Mireille talks about style, communication skills, risk taking, leadership, etiquette, mentoring, personal relationships and much more, all from a perspective of three decades in business. This book is about helping women (and a few men, peut-etre) feel good about themselves, being challenged and engaged in our working lives, and always looking for pleasure in every single day.
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Mireille Guiliano, born and brought up in France, is an internationally bestselling author, long-time spokesperson for Veuve Clicquot and former President and CEO of Clicquot, Inc (LMVH). She is married to an American and divides her time between New York and France (Paris and Provence). Her favourite pastimes are breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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34 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Madam Guiliano is clearly trying to capitalise on the success of her previous book with this. However, I doubt if she will succeed. There is little doubt that she has been professionally successful and that takes a lot of common sense and will-power, characteristics that the desperate hordes looking for the magic bullet to lose weight, ie those who read her first book, are almost certainly without so will therefore find this book largely irrelevant if not incomprehensible.
This is a well-written book, I like her style, but I don't really understand what the point of it is. It's hardly a proper business book, you don't really find out anything that will take you to the top in "business" (an unhelpfully vague term in itself) but instead get told that you should get a decent hair cut and where to leave your napkin when you get up from the table when you're at dinner.
Hanging over everything, and this was also true of French Women Don't Get Fat, is an overbearing smugness that is almost intolerable and becomes so grating that it isn't even amusing. If this had been written in the Eighteenth Century someone would have knocked out a satire of it within a couple of weeks of it being published which would probably have been a lot more useful. It's peppered with a lot of unhelpful anecdotes from Guilano which only really to serve to tell you how perfect she is rather than informing anything that you might choose to do.
Sadly, I do not think this will be her last book and my money would be on her writing something about how to be smugly brilliant in your own home with plenty of advice on rugs, lampshades, saucers and what flowers to put where and when.
I cannot see what the point of this book is and would advise you not to part with your money. If you must read it, get it from the library.
This is a well-written book, I like her style, but I don't really understand what the point of it is. It's hardly a proper business book, you don't really find out anything that will take you to the top in "business" (an unhelpfully vague term in itself) but instead get told that you should get a decent hair cut and where to leave your napkin when you get up from the table when you're at dinner.
Hanging over everything, and this was also true of French Women Don't Get Fat, is an overbearing smugness that is almost intolerable and becomes so grating that it isn't even amusing. If this had been written in the Eighteenth Century someone would have knocked out a satire of it within a couple of weeks of it being published which would probably have been a lot more useful. It's peppered with a lot of unhelpful anecdotes from Guilano which only really to serve to tell you how perfect she is rather than informing anything that you might choose to do.
Sadly, I do not think this will be her last book and my money would be on her writing something about how to be smugly brilliant in your own home with plenty of advice on rugs, lampshades, saucers and what flowers to put where and when.
I cannot see what the point of this book is and would advise you not to part with your money. If you must read it, get it from the library.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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I enjoyed "French women don't get fat" (er - yes they do, actually - perhaps it should have been called "Parisian women don't get fat") and "Frenchwoman for all seasons" .
I think this one is very good. I really wish this book had been published and available when I first entered the workplace. Guiliano is a former top executive and has a lot of common sense advice to give, even if you don't necessarily agree with it all.
If like me you're a bit of a Francophile and make the occasional trip to Paris, then I'd also recommend:
Sarah Turnbull's book "Almost French" if you are looking for a well-written and useful account of being a foreigner living in Paris; Frederic Fekkai's "A year of style" if you are looking to pick up a little je ne sais quoi; and "Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl by Debra Ollivier.
I think this one is very good. I really wish this book had been published and available when I first entered the workplace. Guiliano is a former top executive and has a lot of common sense advice to give, even if you don't necessarily agree with it all.
If like me you're a bit of a Francophile and make the occasional trip to Paris, then I'd also recommend:
Sarah Turnbull's book "Almost French" if you are looking for a well-written and useful account of being a foreigner living in Paris; Frederic Fekkai's "A year of style" if you are looking to pick up a little je ne sais quoi; and "Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl by Debra Ollivier.
Format:Hardcover
It is ironic that Mme Guiliano should quote Malcolm Gladwell in her writings - a fellow author with the same talent for saying as little as possible, book after book.
Not to be cruel, I think she has had an interesting life and its a nice little book of anecdotes to read in an airport lounge or so. If it wasn' t for that underlying "smugness", that is. And for the somewhat patronising lessons on how to order in a restaurant etc. Even as a book on etiquette, the value added is almost unidentifiable, as there is nothing most of us wouldn' t have learnt by the age of twelve. And the assumption that people, in general, are unaware of the fact that, eg, placing your knife and fork "in the 5 o'clock position" to indicate you are finished with you meal is , frankly, preposterous. Maybe, and I mean this with no offence to anyone, she has just spent too much time in the USofA? This would also account for bizarre spelling mistakes such as "aN herb" and "griZZini".
But we musn't be unkind - for the price of two gossip magazines you get 252 pages with barely any advertising. Oh, and a few recipes thrown in , too (some of which are really not bad).
Not to be cruel, I think she has had an interesting life and its a nice little book of anecdotes to read in an airport lounge or so. If it wasn' t for that underlying "smugness", that is. And for the somewhat patronising lessons on how to order in a restaurant etc. Even as a book on etiquette, the value added is almost unidentifiable, as there is nothing most of us wouldn' t have learnt by the age of twelve. And the assumption that people, in general, are unaware of the fact that, eg, placing your knife and fork "in the 5 o'clock position" to indicate you are finished with you meal is , frankly, preposterous. Maybe, and I mean this with no offence to anyone, she has just spent too much time in the USofA? This would also account for bizarre spelling mistakes such as "aN herb" and "griZZini".
But we musn't be unkind - for the price of two gossip magazines you get 252 pages with barely any advertising. Oh, and a few recipes thrown in , too (some of which are really not bad).
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Both Handy and Useful
A most excellent book, full of useful advice, and not only for women either. Part memoir, part self-help book, part book on style and 'know-how,' it is as readable as a novel (but... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Fennie Somerville
Enjoyed it, I would reommend
A good book, worth the purchase for the good tips. I will re-read in the future I am sure (and that says alot!)
Published 23 months ago by J. Penfold
Alot of sense and sensibility
A great book! I just wished I had this book when starting out in the working world. This will be an ideal gift for daughters, grandaughters, goddaughters etc... Read more
Published 23 months ago by R. C. Harding
A Keeper
As the author puts it, I wish I had this book ten years earlier in my life, but still I have alot to learn and put into practice. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2010 by Rennie
Good advice and with humour
It's a fabulous book. Mireille's given lots of advice interlaced with humour.
I will definitely be recommending it to others.Just what every women would need.
I will definitely be recommending it to others.Just what every women would need.
Published on 3 Jan 2010 by Ms. M. Goh
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