Why every business needs a maniac and a minder

Liam Black

PART 10: As a social entrepreneur, you need to be a bit of a maniac to think your unreasonable ideas will succeed. Just as vital, though, is an “inner minder”, who can tend to the boring but vital stuff – and tell the maniac to slow down sometimes. The final extract in our serialisation of Liam Black's book, How to lead with purpose: Lessons in life and work from the gloves-off mentor.