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Poem – “See It”
Do you see it? This stuff you’re swimming in. It’s all around you. You feel it, but don’t feel it. You know ...
Disrupting Meeting Dogma for a Better Future of Work
In the dynamic realm of workplace interactions… habits, power dynamics, and office politics often intertwine, shaping the way we collaborate and succeed. ...
Unleashing the Strength of Introverted Leadership
In the fast-paced world of business, there’s a prevailing notion that leadership belongs to the outgoing—the extroverts who command attention with their ...
Mini Mini Individual-Video-Workshop: 5 minute Prep for a Successful Conversation
Because we’re not nearly as good at “winging it”, as we tell ourselves!! Here is a Mini Mini Individual-Video-Workshop: 5 minute Prep ...
Key to Freedom: Structure. Ironic, isn’t it…
Amidst life’s whirlwind, freedom can feel like a distant mirage. But what if I told you that structure is the key to ...
Are you as good as you’re ever going to get?
What if right now, you’re as good as you’re ever going to get… well that’s a scary thought for many of us! ...
10 ways to lose top performers. Really lose ‘em.
A satirical piece on behalf of high performers who are not in a position to quit. Yet. Here are 10 ways to ...
Individual-Video-Workshop: Land your NEXT Leadership Role
From LinkedIn: March 20, 2024. Wow, thank you for the feedback, messages, and positive response on the last video workshop about growing ...
Individual-Video-Workshop: Grow Your own Leadership Performance
From LinkedIn: March 3, 2024. For many leaders I’ve talked to over the last year, their work environment is not really supporting ...
Escape Tunnel Vision for better Decision-Making
– A COLLABORATION BY: KURSTEN FALLER & JASMINE KERNALEGUEN The impact of poor decision-making capability is felt far and wide in organizations, ...
Peak Performance: the day I woke up with brown goo on my face
I promise, it’s not as gross as you think. It’s a true story. Let’s rewind to the beginning. Picture this: I am ...
Choosing to Live
There’s hesitation, Why? Why not? Then questioning, If not now, When? A decision, Stop waiting, Start living. Then freedom, Be and Become ...
Walk your Talk
When I hear you I may hope, When I see you, I may believe. Deep down Really I know, I know. Are ...
Reboot your growth – Be a Seeker
As children we are inquisitive, curious adventurers, we are seekers. However, as adults there comes a point where we switch from that ...
Who do you choose to be, in 2023?
What are the possibilities that you will bring into the present in 2023? It’s a blank page in a new book to ...
Performance… it’s tiny acts of rebellion.
Figuring this out, systematizing it, continually adapting, having the discipline to move forward and be ok with tiny discomfort… to escape the ...
The Effects of Redefining Leadership Performance
When we redefine leadership performance to be: creating the environment for success where people can bring their best, thrive and actually want ...
Break out of the Hypnosis of the “day to day” Work
The “day to day” work – what is this, anyway? This article is for anyone who has ever finished a day exhausted ...
Are you guilty? Illusions & Delusions of Certainty.
When things are uncertain, we try to create certainty. Often though whatever we’re creating or telling ourselves is simply an illusion (false ...
Systematizing Mediocrity, Rinse/Repeat: no mistakes allowed.
In many companies, we say we want performance and for people to grow and improve – we spend a ton of money ...
Just Scrolling Through
I am an alive observer With questions… I’m skeptical Disappointed Tuned in. Everyone I see Seems Tuned out. Are we Working while ...
Poem – The Choice to Lead
A poem originally published in Emergence by the Business Agility Institute, Feb 2022.
Imperfectly Perfect
It’s not perfect It’s not good enough So I’m not good enough I need to get it right Or it’s wrong So ...
Redefining Leadership Performance
Organizations everywhere are underperforming. People are burning out, leaving, frustrated, certainly not bringing their best to work. Endless unproductive meetings, busyness. Transformations ...
Ignited Remembrance
- For G, and all those we remember who helped us find our way With tears of forever gratitude And still a ...
Are you creating a sense of Urgency? or Emergency?
Leaders are trying to get results, make initiatives go faster, deliver on strategy. In pursuit of these efforts they often experience frustration ...
Move Your Feet
People reach and reach Arms extended Just about falling forward Off balance lunging And squiggling around, Trying to grab something Just out ...
Innovation vs Innovationless
Companies often find themselves stalled out or slowing down in their capacity to innovate as they grow and mature. Performance and competitive ...
I own the pen that makes Me
People see me But don’t really see They only view me Through their glasses I’m me through their lenses Of themselves Not ...
Leveraging Tension for Real Change
Change and agility ultimately are: movement, evolution, transformation. Moving from A to B with some detours along the way, there is inherent ...
An experiment in work-cation April 7 – May 1, 2022.
25 days away, several countries, strangers, covid tests at every turn. + connecting in person with awesome people I’ve only met on Zoom, ...
Poem – The Should’s will kill ya
What is this word should? [Collins Dictionary:] Should is a modal verb. It is used with the base form of a verb. ...
Creating better Buy-In is not Leadership. It’s Salesmanship.
Here’s a contrarian view: Creating buy-in is the skill of influencing, selling, salesmanship, and political manoeuvring = Salesmanship/Sales Performance. Creating the environment ...
Organizational Silofication: implications in grouping experts for organizational performance
Academic Article Organizational silofication: implications in grouping experts for organizational performance
Get more bang for your burn rate, lift off. Don’t crash & burn.
How can you maximize cash, energy, effort, results, scaling speed? Accelerate people performance. Most companies don’t come close to realizing their people ...
Graphic – Shifting from Being Valuable to Creating Value, as a Leader
There is an incredible shift from the static and reactive state of \”Being Valuable\” to the dynamic and adventuring state of \”Creating ...
Handing over Control as a Leader – it’s all about your performance.
First, it’s not about handing over control – but we’ll get to that in a bit. I remember saying in extreme frustration ...
Graphic – Team Performance “capacity for speed”
What determines your team’s max speed?
In Possibility
Beginning In Possibility Everything is clear When nothing yet seems Then in a flash eyes open wide Electricity in your veins Ideas ...
My Today
Who am I Where am I going Why does any of that matter For what good is effort If there is no ...
What determines your team’s max speed?
People, teams and companies can only move as fast as decisions can be made. Just take that in for a second and ...
A little list of Happiness
Research has proven that it’s not the big shiny things you do that make you happy, not the big moments, the big ...
Meetings: a micro snapshot of Team and Company Performance
Scary thought for many that their meetings might be a micro snapshot of their performance – as leaders, as a team, as ...
People Performance is your untapped Scaling Superpower.
Frustrated because you’re doing everything you can, but you’re not growing as fast as you want to, no matter what you do? ...
Letting go
Letting Go – Jasmine Kernaleguen On this shortest day of the year, The northern winter solstice, I take a long look. I ...
Academic References
2022 – Silberman, D., Aguinis, H., Carpenter, R.E., Kernaleguen, J. (2022, March 2-5). Extreme Pedagogy: An Integrative Approach for Preparing Business Leaders ...
Wth is this blog all about?
We’ve created the Performance Rebels Blog to house and link content that might interest like minded people, fellow disruptors of the status ...
Start Line or Finish Line? A Leader’s Day 1
We hire or promote leaders, and it’s viewed as arrival, “the end” rather than the beginning. It’s an accomplishment to land a ...
Create Capacity or Stay Who You Are
Forbes: Create Capacity or Stay Who You Are


























































