Steve Jobs was famous for his ‘reality distortion field’, whereby he’d bend reality to make the seemingly impossible happen.

In my experience, entrepreneurs think entrepreneurial thinking is the answer to everything. I certainly used to be guilty of that thinking.

But here’s why that probably isn’t the case…

Even in a business, reality distortion works best for creating brand new things. It doesn’t necessarily work for operations, where best practice is often best (funny that). It doesn’t work when a failure to deliver leads to suffering.

So, reality distortion probably doesn’t work for running a country, as we have seen very clearly of late.

Reality distortion definitely doesn’t work in medicine where best practice is founded in evidence, not quackery.

Everything has its place, but it’s important to remember that nothing is useful in all situations.