Take the red pill or the blue pill? This is the choice faced by Neo [played by Keanu Reeves] in the 1999 cult film, The Matrix in the famous ‘red pill scene’. Neo discovers he has been inhabiting a dream world, the life he has been living is an elaborate hallucination. Neo has to choose whether to continue to keep living a delusion or wake up to reality.
At the risk of over-dramatising, perhaps managers at times are living in a dream world. Not seeing both the opportunities placed in front of them and the hard realities of problems, that can’t be avoided. One bitter pill to swallow is that bad bosses torment good staff.
