Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3923 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Women, work and the art of smugness
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.