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f anyone had asked Jake how confident he was in their current strategy, he would give it a solid eight out of ten. Miranda had shown an adequate amount of courtesy without seeming weak or meek while also making their position clear.
She had emphasized that they were not coming as enemies but to negotiate. The strategy revolved around not needing to fight or even having to reveal Mystie. No, Mystie and Jake were the backup plans if things went south and the primary strategy failed.
But… Jake also knew one other little snippet of information: ninety percent of all strategies fail.
The primary cause of failure was outside sources, or emergent factors from within that didn’t conform with the organization’s existing culture. Individual actors taking on roles to operationalize und
