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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � A Psychologist's Scary Warning to Women Leaders: Being a People Pleaser Is Making You Physically Sick - Inc.com    How to Align Your SEO Strategy with Google's A.I.Search Lab Updates in Time for Holiday Shopping Start reading through the many studies that have been done on women in the workplace and an immediate theme will jump out at you: Professional life is a tightrope for women.  Be too forceful or tough-minded and people will perceive you as violating cultural norms that say women should be warm and nurturing. Be too caring and empathetic and you'll be perceived as weak and less competent. Either way, you lose. The only way to succeed is to somehow find the perfect balance between these two unfair demands.  Continued here � � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Americans Think They Need To Make $284,000 To Be Happy. They're Wrong—And So Is The Research. - Forbes    MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 10: Miley Cyrus throws money in the air as she performs at the ... [+] opening night of her Bangerz Tour in Australia at Rod Laver Arena on October 10, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images) How much more money would you need to make you "happy"? That's the question financial services firm Empower put to Americans in a recent survey which revealed: Kudos to Empower for touching a nerve with this study which earned it coverage in major news outlets like CBS, Fortune, and, yes, Forbes. The "research," however has some flaws which impugn its legitimacy: Continued here � � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Beliefs about Emotions Influence How People Feel, Act and Relate to Others - Scientific American    Continued here � � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Eight of the best spy novels - The Economist    “KIM”, PUBLISHED in 1901, may be the first spy novel. Rudyard Kipling recounts the adventures of an orphan who becomes a player in the Great Game, Britain’s competition with Russia in the 19th century for influence in Central Asia. MI5 and MI6, Britain’s domestic and overseas intelligence services, appreciating the value of imagination to intelligence work, recruited novelists. On leaving those agencies they incorporated their knowledge of tradecraft into their fiction. James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s cold-war spymaster, majored in English at Yale. He advised trainee agents to read William Empson’s “Seven Types of Ambiguity”, believing Empson’s literary criticism to be analogous to intelligence work. It was Angleton who famously called spying “a wilderness of mirrors”, a phrase he lifted from the poet T.S. Eliot. English-speakers are especially apt to travel between the seemingly distant realms of spying and novelising, which is why most of the books on our list were written in that language. We have ignored some very good books that emphasise politics at the expense of snooping, which are often, though not always, written in languages other than English. One example is Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Sympathiser”, published in 2015, set in the aftermath of the Vietnam war. This much garlanded novel, written in English, is more social commentary than espionage. The eight books we recommend here are guiltier pleasures. There is no doubt as to the identity of the best spy novelist—John le Carré. The only question is which is his best book. Many pick “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold”, published in 1963, which was considered transgressive at the time for suggesting that, in the business of espionage at least, the West and the Soviet bloc were moral equivalents. But le Carré’s masterpiece is surely “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, published in 1974 at the height of the cold war. This is the fifth novel in which George Smiley appears, this time as a spymaster brought out of forced retirement to hunt for a Soviet mole in MI6. Suffused with menace, paranoia and treachery, “Tinker Tailor” has never been bettered as a depiction of the grey, often seedy world of espionage. Le Carré was both a first-class novelist and a former intelligence agent; here the combination works to its full advantage. Rueful, cuckolded Smiley, “small, podgy, and at best middle-aged”, is his greatest creation. Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman (pictured) have played him on screen. If le Carré showed that the spy novel could be great literature, Ian Fleming conceived of the genre as that of action-thriller. He set the template for all who followed. Robert Ludlum’s hero, Jason Bourne, is a tad more nuanced than Fleming’s misogynistic loner James Bond, but he is still recognisably the same sort of impossibly resourceful beefcake. A journalist by trade, Fleming worked for British naval intelligence during the second world war and his novels often depict the tradecraft of the era. President John Kennedy was a fan. Unlike le Carré’s intricately plotted novels, a Bond book can easily be devoured in an afternoon. The appeal lies in the gadgets, honeytraps and outrageous villains. “From Russia, with Love”, published in 1957, has an especially memorable cast of SMERSH assassins, including the muscle-bound psychopath Donovan Grant and Rosa Kleb (of the lethal toe caps). It has to be the best of the Bonds. Continued here

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