Ready, Fire, Aim!

<span class="paragraphSection">Early on in my career as an occupational physician, I spent a number of years working for a French multinational company. Once established, I was sent to France for 3 months of company immersion. There were 47 of us, half newly recruited from the <span style="font-style:italic;">grand écoles</span>, the elite of the French educational system. The remainder were experienced managers either from France or foreigners like myself from throughout Europe and America. We were now <span style="font-style:italic;">cadre</span>, the professional elite in an egalitarian republic. All male, we were engineers and production managers, accountants and computer programmers, personnel managers and designers, cartographers and chemists and a doctor.</span>

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