The job, attached to the foreign ministry, requires Mr von Thadden to take a broad view of relations with France and to offer new ideas for improving them, inside and outside government.

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If this applies to your new position, be sure to offer your boss or colleagues ideas for how to enhance the product or company.

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Both seemed to offer choices that served the rest of us and both seemed to be bursting with new ideas.

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