One of my scorching-hot takes about corporate life is that executives and managers should strive to see reality clearly. While this seems uncontroversial, it isn’t, which you can tell by witnessing the uncomfortable fidgeting that occurs whenever a company’s most intelligent and grounded employees watch their CEO talk gibberish at an All-Hands meeting. (One day, I’ll launch an IoT startup that measures this ambient discomfort and sells it as an “Engagement” score to gullible executives; like all such scores, it’ll be a busy box for them to obsess over so their employees can get on with actual work.)