Topic: France

Risk and Reward on a French Water Slide: is your business making a splash?

Starting a business is always risky. For those of us who’ve started successful businesses we’ve had to balance risks and the promise of rewards. Sometimes you feel the fear but do it anyway, because if you don’t do it, ...READ»

France and Sanity

So, the French government caved. After months of protests by hundreds of thousands of university students, President Jacques Chirac agreed last week to kill off a proposed law that would have allowed private employers to fire workers ...READ»

Gourmet Chocolate Presents

Gourmet Chocolate Presents – Celebrate Easter Like the French This Easter, what better way to celebrate the coming of spring with a box of award-winning French truffles handmade in France and delivered right to your ...READ»

Digital Music a la Francaise

Love 'em, hate 'em, the French aren't afraid to buck the norm. While students riot in the streets over a proposed change in the labor laws, the French parliament tossed an egg at copy-protected digital music systems with a law that ...READ»

If You're Happy and You Show It...

...move to France? A recent survey indicates that nine out of 10 people in France are happy in the workplace. Surprisingly, people working in the public sector are happier than those working in the private sector. 91 percent of ...READ»

French Way of Life & Why it’s Good for Business-Robin Trehan

The government isn’t the dominant figure, the people are. So in order to keep protests and strikes down, businesses and the government do what’s needed to keep the people happy. Even in healthcare, doctors are paid more to help people quit smoking and keep patients from coming back to the hospital frequently.READ»

How to Be Idle? II

Following on John's post, it seems laziness has become the new management fad in France. (Of course some might argue that in the land of mandated 35-hour work weeks French sloth is hardly a new concept.) Corinne Maier, an economist ...READ»

The tendency of wedding in west culture

There are so many differences between the eastern culture and that of the west. Take wedding for example, they differs in many aspects.Weddings performed during and immediately following the medieval era were often more than just a ...READ»

French Constitutional Council vs. Citizen Journalism

How backwards is this? France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence Law could lead to imprisonment of amateur videographers and Web site operators who publish their images By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service March 06, ...READ»

US, Satisfied?

Boy, are we a finicky bunch. According to a new study by Accenture, the industry Americans are most satisfied with is -- get this -- postal services. And that top spot in the results only means that a meager 44% of Americans are ...READ»

Razoreye

Web Detective Pro That is, Law should lay out prohibitions only if they are needed, and if the inconveniences caused by this restriction do not exceed the inconveniences that the prohibition is supposed to remedy. Privacy ...READ»

A Wine for Every Wallet

Joshua Wesson is president of Best Cellars Inc., a retailer that features prime wines priced at less than $10 apiece.READ»

Quick, Hide the Solar Panels!

A new arts center shows how to make solar panels look good, without camouflaging them.READ»

The Starbucks Effect

A coffee shop appears in Dublin--and forces us to reckon with the future.READ»

UN Climate Summit: 186 Nations Gridlocked by Global Recession

There won’t be too many major decisions made at this week’s UN climate summit, but close observers will be able to hear the conversation shift and watch battle lines being drawn for the new year.READ»

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The Customer is King but...

Louis XVI of France, Charles I, and many other kings have shown that there are limits to the king's power. Every business has its good customers and its customers from hell. Often both are given the same prices and the same ...READ»

Road Rules - Rule 11

Making the most out of business-travel time.READ»

Uganda, the Entrepreneur's Paradise

Want to start or run a new business? You'll be surprised which countries are the most entrepreneurial.READ»

Time (Zone) Travelers

It's becoming the essential competitive edge: the ability to hopscotch the globe, switching countries, cultures, and languages as easily as the rest of us change clothes. Meet some folks who are really living the borderless life.READ»

News You Can Use—and Create

When US Air flight 1549 touched down on the Hudson River, all aboard were saved but the major news organs got smoked: They didn't break the news or the pictures. Instead we got both in nearly real-time, via eye witnesses on Twitter. ...READ»

My So-Called Life - Joanna Rees Gallanter

Joanna Rees Gallanter has experienced wholesale life and career changes and learned the true meaning of success along the way.READ»

In Today's Papers

From the reading pile: Corporate Monogamy Conventional wisdom seems to be that executives who sit on boards sit on many. Turns out that about half sit on just one. Do the Rights of the Disabled Extend to the Blind on the ...READ»

American Liquor Alliance, Southern Italy

Global Wine and Spirits Southern Italy Kind of central, kind of southern, this region is best known for it's wine, Montapulciano d'Abruzzi – this wine is made from the Montelpulciano grape, unlike Vino Nobile di Montelpulciano, made with a Sangiovese clone in the region of Montelpuliciano. The Montelpulciano grape is happiest here in Abruzzi and the wine is rustic, yet soft and often fruity. The best part is that it's also good value and super food-friendly. READ»

How to Move Forward When You're Between Jobs

Learn how to transform a layoff into a savvy sabbatical -- a time to recharge your batteries and learn new skills without sabotaging your résumé. Author Hope Dlugozima offers tips for taking six months off smart.READ»

'Inglourious Basterds' Premiere

Everyone’s seen a World War II flick wherein, having touched upon the lowest depths of human misery and the darkest corners in mankind’s soul, you’re so depressed you can hardly enjoy that the good guys won. This is not that ...READ»