This approach also works extremely well if you want to stall or cancel a project in a big corporation for political reasons. Just embed one of your engineer in

This approach also works extremely well if you want to stall or cancel a project in a big corporation for political reasons. Just embed one of your engineer in their team to gain knowledge, but fail to deliver on almost all items except a few. You will end-up pitting "your" exec against "their", and it will take them forever to solve the problem. If conflict resolution looms, just send everyone in summer or winter vacation for several weeks.