AWoman’s Guide to Corporate Success While Mireille Guiliano is best known for “French Women Don’t Get Fat,” her book on healthy eating and balanced living, authorship is actually her second you’ll find advice on being happy and living a good life, even while you are making the biggest contribution
‘Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility’
you can to the workplace. That’s why I dare to talk about style, and clothes, and food, and wine, and entertaining, and LIFE in a business book. We don’t work in a vacuum.” Guiliano is true to her word. Between the covers, readers will find advice on topics as far-ranging as developing the perfect handshake, choosing catering for a business dinner, dressing for success, and putting together an effective presentation. Guiliano has plenty of experience to back up her counsel and shares amusing anecdotes about the food and beverage industry, French culture, and her own journey along the way. There are no easy three-step solutions here, only long-term goals and strategies. What really makes “Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire” unique is that it caters specifically to women in pursuit of high-powered CEO or CFO jobs. Guiliano covers circumventing prejudice right alongside choosing a dress and tips on being the perfect lunch date. Still, both men and women will come away from this book with ideas about how to achieve success without sacrificing the pleasures French women hold so dear.
career. Before she took up the pen, Guiliano was president and CEO of the French Champagne brand Veuve Clicquot. She developed Veuve Clicquot’s reputation in America almost single-handedly over a 20-plus year career, and now she has chronicled that success in her 2010 bestseller “Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility” — a guide to climbing the corporate ladder geared specifically toward women. Just as “French Women Don’t Get Fat” upended the typical diet book format, “Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire” leaves the usual business book style behind almost immediately. As Guiliano writes in her introduction, “This isn’t another business book that tells you how
to ‘succeed’ or ‘get the corner office.’ Yes, of
course, you’ll find advice on getting ahead and getting promoted … but more than that,
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How I Learned to Distrust the Texas Family Law Practice Manual
Jerrod Brownell retired as an E-6 from the United States Army in 2008 after 20 years of service. Jerrod and Emily were married in 1998 and divorced in 2006. It was not a 10/10 marriage. At the entry hearing, the attorneys disagreed as to which proper terms should be included in the QDRO. (Note: A court order dividing military retirement is not called a QDRO. However, I use that term in its generic sense to apply to the order in this case). The judge listened to the arguments of both attorneys and then issued a ruling that the wife’s attorney would prepare a QDRO that strictly adhered to the Texas Family Law Practice Manual. Both attorneys reviewed the form for military retirement and were surprised when they repeatedly found contradicting language that was preceded by “Use the following language when representing service member” quickly followed by “Use the following language when representing former spouse.”
Both attorneys were also surprised to see so many gratuitous clauses in the form that were never ordered by the court. For example, the service member was prospectively ordered to effect a “voluntary allotment” to the former spouse in contravention of the federal statute and without compliance with Texas laws of garnishment and due process. The attorneys returned to inform the court that it was quite impossible to comply with his ruling because of the conflicting and sometimes unlawful language found in the Family Law Practice Manual. The issue was resolved when the attorneys hired Hernsberger QDRO Law to mediate the terms and draft the final QDRO.
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