The Manipulators

The ManipulatorsIf You Are a junior executive or middle management man being considered for promotion, the pleasant fellow sharing martinis with you – chatting casually about seemingly trivial, unrelated topics, ordering rounds of drinks until you become mellow and expansive and relaxed – may be a hired mind-prober, an Mr man. That innocent-looking form you are asked to fill out and those inkblots you are asked to interpret and any other tests excluding the purely physical to which you are subje...