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(CNN) -- Jeff Weiss had spent 20 years teaching negotiation skills to top executives when he realized those techniques might be just as valuable to soldiers on the battlefield. 

So a decade ago, he approached the U.S. Military to teach officers negotiation tools and strategies they could use in a theater of war. The West Point Negotiation Project was founded, and before long, Weiss made another realization: the lessons could go the other way, too. 

"There's a ton to take from the military back to the corporations," says Weiss, a partner at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based negotiation training and consulting firm that works with Fortune 500 companies. "Business leaders have a lot to learn from military leaders who, in extreme situations, are able to take a deep breath, get perspective and negotiate through a set of strategies." 

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Perhaps counter-intuitively, the best military negotiators adopt a creative, problem-solving approach. A more macho, "Rambo style" of negotiation -- in which the negotiator digs in inflexibly to a position they believe to be right -- is "just not effective," Weiss says, and could lead to fatal errors. 

"When we're under pressure to act fast in a high-stakes situation, it often leads us to a set of traps," he adds. "We often act on perception and assumptions, we tend to use a strong position and dig in, we tend to use threats and we play a concessions game far too frequently." 

Below are five key points into which Weiss has distilled the essence of successful deal-making, which he says are equally applicable whether you're dealing with potentially hostile stakeholders on the battlefield, or a fellow boardroom warrior.  (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question based on this story, and describe how likely it is that your guess is correct as one of the following expressions:

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Highly Likely
Very Good Chance
We Beleive
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Likely
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About Even
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Little Chance
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Give ONLY the guess and your confidence, no other words or explanation. For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>
Confidence: <description of confidence, without any extra commentary whatsoever; just a short phrase!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: What's the name of the article's subject?
Guess: Jeff Weiss
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What's his job?
Guess: Teacher
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Of what?
Guess: negotiation skills
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Who has he mostly taught?
Guess: executives
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: For how long?
Guess: 20 years
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Who did he start teaching instead?
Guess: military officers
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: When did he start that?
Guess: a decade ago
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Does Weiss think that the military can teach the executives something?
Guess: Yes
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What kind of strategies do military officers take in negotiations?
Guess: a creative, problem-solving approach
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What kind of strategy is not effective?
Guess: A more macho, "Rambo style" of negotiation
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What are military leaders able to do?
Guess: take a deep breath, get perspective and negotiate through a set of strategies in extreme situations
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What happens when we're under pressure?
Guess: it often leads us to a set of traps
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What does Weiss say we do too often?
Guess: use threats and play a concessions game
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What kind of companies does Weiss's company work with?
Guess: Fortune 500 companies
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What's the name of his company?
Guess: Vantage Partners
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Where is it located?
Guess: Boston
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Question: What is his position there?
Guess: partner
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Question: What's the name of the military program he started?
Guess: The West Point Negotiation Project
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: How many people took part in the program?
Guess: unknown
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: Does Weiss still work in the program?

unknown