During a act of cooperation, negotiation or decision making all parties withhold knowledge or information that either prolongs the process or completely destroys any chance of reaching the best possible result for all parties.
In order to "one up" the other both the sales and design teams created mutual mystification byfailing to disclose importantexceptions and outlyers in their data that had the ability to compromise any final decision thusly
an obsessive desire to present even obvious things as mysterious ones and thus making them unclear and hard to understand just to gain attention of the listeners (from mystification + fixation)
I asked Jeremy about his plans for summer holidays, but I got lost after a couple of seconds he started talking, because he made it so confidential and difficult to understand. It's his mystifixation - a desire to make everything, even simple things, look and sound mysterious.