Sleeping With The CEO

There were many unwritten things that came with being the CEO of a successful group. Things that no one talked about but everybody knew that they were part and parcel of the job.

One of those things was the mind games, and the negotiations. Being the CEO of Haven Group, Derek had gone through many negotiations that were so tense you could have cut the air with a butter knife. He had gone toe to toe with people who played mind games, to a level so great that if a person was unused to that amount of toxicity, they would crack under the pressure and end up in a psych ward somewhere. And that was not just him being dramatic. He had seen it happen before.

There had been multiple cases of people committing suicide due to the mind games that the higher-ups were playing with them. Derek knew all about that, and he knew that the only way to survive such things, and to come out on top. Was to have one particular trait that a lot of people often dismissed as something trivial. And that trait was simple.

Patience.

That was all you needed. For you see, no matter how long the negotiations dragged on, no matter what was thrown at you.

If you were patient enough, at some point you would begin to see the pattern, and once the pattern had made itself clear it was game over for the other side, you could then turn their playbook against them. And more often than not, people who played mind games often had no idea what to do when they were being attacked, with their own game plan.

It was something that Derek had done time and time again, relishing the looks on his competitors’ faces when he turned the tables on them. Negotiations and mind games were something that he took so lightly, he could play them in his sleep.

That was, if he was ever able to get any sleep.

But now Derek was realizing that on that front he might have spoken too soon. Yes, if negotiations and playing dirty tricks were some sort of bottled alcohol, fresh off the shelf and selling to the highest bidder.