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.

This episode of Rebellious Business reveals how businesses can make smarter, more strategic decisions—not by working harder, but by training their teams to think with greater sophistication.

When companies empower both management and teams to ask the right questions before committing to a big decision, they don’t just avoid costly mistakes—they gain a massive competitive edge.

We'll cover why teams default to surface-level thinking, describe real-life gut checks and drills, and provide frameworks for asking the concise questions that can prevent costly errors.

If your business has ever sat through months of sales pitches, vendor demos, and flashy slide decks—only to realize later that no one actually showed the backend or explained the hidden costs of what you just bought—this episode is for you.

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

High performers are idea machines, constantly absorbing insights and generating innovations that could transform your business. But without a system to capture and act on these flashes of inspiration, those game-changing ideas vanish into the daily grind.

In this episode of Rebellious Business, we introduce IdeaOps—the framework for systematically capturing, refining, and implementing high-value ideas as a continuous flow of innovation. Just like DevOps transformed development and SecOps redefined security, IdeaOps institutionalizes the process of turning spontaneous insight into action.

If your business is ready to stop losing its best ideas and start building a system where innovation is an ongoing process, this episode is for you. Tune in now!

Rebellious Business is created, written, and copyrighted by Katherine R. Lieber, high-performance strategist and the Rebellious Business consultant of TitaniumBlue LLC.

High performers aren’t just employees—they’re your competitive edge. But here’s the question: do you truly know who they are and what they bring to your business?

In this episode of Rebellious Business, we dive into why most leaders overlook their top contributors, how high performers often become invisible in traditional workplaces, and what it costs your organization when their value goes unrecognized.

Discover how to identify your high performers, make their contributions visible, and create systems that support their growth and success. If you want to stop coasting on assumptions and start unlocking the full potential of your best people, this episode is for you. Tune in now!

The Rebellious Business podcast is created, written, and copyrighted by Katherine R. Lieber, high-performance strategist and the Rebellious Business consultant of TitaniumBlue LLC.

Meetings are all over your work-week landscape, but are they worth the cost? In this episode of Rebellious Business, we tackle the hidden productivity drain of meetings, from wasted time and money to the deep disruptions they cause for high performers and their "maker time."

We’ll explore the history of business meetings, break down why they’ve become the default setting in modern work, and expose how most meetings fail due to lack of goals, structure, and outcomes. Plus, we introduce the concept of Meeting Zero to reclaim your time and focus on what truly matters.

If you’re tired of feeling like meetings are running your day instead of driving results, this episode is for you. Tune in to learn how to flip the script and take control of your work time.

The Rebellious Business podcast is created and produced by Katherine R. Lieber of TitaniumBlue LLC, where rebellion sparks real business growth.

Workplace relationships aren’t built on coffee chats, team lunches, or bonding games—they’re built on trust, reliability, and shared goals. In this episode of Rebellious Business, we’re exposing the myth of workplace bonding and breaking down why forced socializing often backfires.

Discover why work isn’t about being friends or acting like a family, and learn how real relationships thrive in the matrix of actual work—not around the lunch table.

If you’re ready to flip the script on workplace relationships, this episode is for you. Tune in now!

The Rebellious Business podcast is created and produced by Katherine R. Lieber of TitaniumBlue LLC, where rebellion sparks real business growth.