When working with French colleagues and partners, understand that they share information based on relationship depth, not role or formal need. Your innermost circle—close family, trusted confidants—receives your candid thoughts and full picture. As relationships move outward to extended connections, professional contacts, and acquaintances, information is shared more selectively and carefully filtered.
This is not about hiding things; it is about appropriately matching what you share to how well you know someone. Building access to more sensitive information requires investing time in the relationship itself.
If you want French colleagues to share more openly with you, focus on building genuine connection over time rather than requesting information directly. Trust earns information; information does not create trust.
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