Blog - Madeleine Shaw Executive Coaching

Remember last week, when we talked about the invisible metaphors running (or ruining) your leadership? Here is one of the most common: the beloved "open door" policy.

It soun...

We think through metaphors. They are the invisible scaffolding of how you operate. (See what I did there?)

The thing about scaffolding, like wallpaper, is that you stop noticing it. It just becomes part of ... what is. And that can be a problem, when it’s limiting you in ways you might not be aware o...

Last week we established that the hub model breaks down at scale. When you are the central node for every decision and piece of information in a large organisation, you quickly become the bottlene...

You know how to lead. You have been doing it successfully for years, and yet...

You’ve landed a much bigger role, a larger mandate, a wider scope. Exciting. But, somewhere in the first few months, a weird, nagging disquiet starts to make itself known. It is not that you are failing, exactly, but something fee...