Why do businesses keep rewarding the people who talk the most instead of the ones who actually get things done?

You know the type—the Big Talker. Always in the meetings, always making bold claims, always spinning a vision of what’s just about to happen. But when you look closer, there’s nothing real behind it. No actual progress. No measurable results. Just another excuse for why success is right around the corner.

Meanwhile, the real high performers—the ones quietly holding everything together—go unnoticed. Because they’re too busy producing to play the visibility game.

In this episode of Rebellious Business, we’re breaking down:

• Why leadership mistakes talking about work for actual competence

• How Big Talkers keep getting rewarded even when they fail to deliver

• Why businesses lose their best people by ignoring real producers

• The simple shift companies need to make if they want to measure performance instead of performance theater

If you’ve ever watched a Big Talker rise through the ranks while the real work goes unrecognized, this episode is for you.

🔊 Listen now to learn how to build a business that rewards results—not just big personalities.

🎙️ Rebellious Business is created, written, and copyrighted by Katherine R. Lieber of TitaniumBlue LLC.

High performers don’t create breakthrough results in five-minute gaps between meetings. They don’t produce game-changing work while juggling shallow tasks, endless emails, and constant interruptions.

Yet, businesses demand transformation while refusing to make space for it.

In this episode of Rebellious Business, we’re exposing a broken system—one where companies assign high-impact projects but never protect the time and focus needed to execute them.

Inside, we break down:

• Why big results don’t happen in the cracks of the workday

• The myth that high performers can juggle everything and still produce at the highest level

• How businesses sabotage their own success by forcing key projects to fight for survival

• What companies must do differently if they actually want the big results they keep asking for

If you’ve ever been handed a “critical project” but still expected to keep up with business as usual, this episode is for you.

🔊 Listen now to learn why great work only happens when companies make the hard choices to protect it.

🎙️ Rebellious Business is created, written, and copyrighted by Katherine R. Lieber of TitaniumBlue LLC.

Most businesses still believe a dangerous myth—that forcing employees to be physically present in an office equals higher productivity.

It doesn’t. It never has.

For high performers, being seen isn’t the same as getting work done. In fact, the modern office is built for visibility, control, and shallow engagement—not for deep, focused, high-impact work.

So why do businesses keep pushing for physical engagement when it actively hurts performance?

In this episode of Rebellious Business, we’re exposing the real reason companies want workers back in offices:

• Why traditional offices were never designed for knowledge work—they were designed for hierarchy and surveillance.
• How meetings, interruptions, and forced socialization destroy deep work.
• Why remote work didn’t reduce productivity—it exposed how much time was already being wasted.
• What businesses should be measuring instead of physical presence.

If you’ve ever sat in a meeting that should have been an email—or been forced into an office just so someone could “see” you working—this episode is for you.

🔊 Listen now to learn why the best companies focus on results, not performative busyness.

🎙️ Rebellious Business is created, written, and copyrighted by Katherine R. Lieber of TitaniumBlue LLC.