In the 1999 film The Matrix, the red pill represents truth, the blue pill illusion. Coaches should take the red pill and accept life is messy, says Dr Paul Ballman What is your coaching philosophy? I’d be amazed if there’s any reader of this publication who has never been asked that question. Whether as part of coaching accreditation, to get on a list of coaching suppliers for a big organisation, or just in passing by colleagues, it’s a question to which we’re all expected to have a well-rehearsed answer. While there may well be as many answers as there are...