Power in a prison is not given. It is read, negotiated, and constantly tested. After thirteen years working across courts, prisons, and law enforcement, I recognise the same dynamics in every corporate leadership team I encounter.

Television, pop psychology, and the self-help industry have taught you a confident fiction. Here is what behavioural science and thirteen years of real intelligence work actually looks like.

In intelligence, we were trained to read the face before the mouth. Here is what that taught me about every leadership meeting you have ever attended.