He smiled to himself one evening as Brad forwarded yet another client deck without opening it. “I trust my people,” Brad had told the CEO. Ethan murmured under his breath, “Good. You should.” That night, the experiment gained a new hypothesis: blind trust makes the perfect weapon.
A week later, the company announced its next major pitch—a high-stakes quarterly review with the executive board and potential investors. The kind of presentation that could make or break careers. Everyone buzzed with anxiety. Everyone, that is, except Brad, who saw it as a red carpet invite.