There’s a particular kind of silence that settles over a conference room when everyone knows the best idea won’t win. It’s not loud. It doesn’t argue. It simply adjusts itself to power. That quiet tension is the emotional undercurrent of Breaking Politics, Empowering Experts by Roshan Bhondekar and Vaibhav Deshpande — a book that doesn’t scream about corporate politics but studies it the way a chess player studies the board before touching a piece. What struck me first