The Ten Toughest Leadership Problems and How to Solve Them

By Katie Best

The head of LSE’s MBA Essentials Programme unveils her proven leadership toolbox, designed to help readers overcome every challenge during their leadership life-cycle

What’s the most important quality in a leader? If you asked Dale Carnegie this question in 1936, his answer might have been ‘influence’. In 1998, Robert Greene might have said ‘authority’. In the Steve Jobs era it might have been ‘vision’.

Katie Best has the answer for this generation of leaders, and for generations to come: ‘adaptability’. As head of the MBA Essentials programme at the London School of Economics, founder of the leadership consultancy KatieBest Associates, and creator of the ‘Dear Katie’ leadership newsletter, she has developed a practical, adaptable, research-driven approach to leadership development that has worked brilliantly for students and clients alike.

In The Ten Toughest Leadership Problems and How to Solve Them, Best shares this approach with readers everywhere. She focuses on the ten messiest problems that leaders everywhere face – from engagement to strategy, gravitas, culture and more – and presents her SOLVE self-coaching system, developed through rigorous research, that shows readers not only how to solve those ten problems but also how to tackle any other problem they face throughout their leadership life-cycle. The result is a leadership coach in your pocket, packed with problem-solving techniques to help leaders of all sorts adapt to every real-world challenge that comes their way.