The people above us on the organizational ladder can represent especially delicate challenges in any effort to restore corporate reality-grounding. If the person we report to is essentially operating from la-la land, it can be extremely trying (not to mention career-threatening) to attempt to bring such an individual back to literal reality.

Perhaps the most useful thing we can do in such a situation is learn the same perception-management techniques that virtualizers like management consultants use, and employ these techniques to present literal reality to our organizational higher-ups—and to do this in just as carefully-scheduled and recurring a manner as the presentations of the more nefarious manipulators.

All other things being equal, truth has a tendency of winning arguments over the long haul, simply because it explains more and has fewer inconsistencies.