French culture employs defined processes for important decisions—procedures specifying how decisions should be made, what information gathered, who consulted, what steps followed. These structures make decisions predictable and defensible.
When working with French organizations, understand what processes govern the decisions you need. Follow these processes even if they seem slow or bureaucratic; bypassing proper process, even for good outcomes, is questionable. Structure legitimates decisions: decisions reached through proper process are defensible; decisions that bypassed process lack that legitimacy. Learn what process applies, follow it appropriately, and your decisions will have standing that improvised approaches cannot achieve.
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