When you enter commitments with French counterparts, understand that they view commitment as revealing and shaping who you fundamentally are. Whether you keep your commitments demonstrates your character—your trustworthiness, integrity, and reliability.
This means commitment decisions carry weight beyond the specific agreement; each kept commitment builds reputation for reliability while each broken commitment damages how others understand you as a person. French colleagues evaluate potential partners partly by their track record: have they proven themselves trustworthy through past commitment-keeping?
When you honor commitments despite difficulty, you establish yourself as someone of genuine integrity. When you break them, you reveal yourself as unreliable. In French business culture, this character dimension means your commitment behavior shapes all future relationships, not just the current one.
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