“Performance eating rabbits (PERs) have one priority, to destroy your performance improvement initiative.”

Creating robust improvement can be daunting and difficult. At times, you may feel like the magician who must quickly and magically pull a rabbit out of a hat!

While we wish we could make results happen like a magician, more often the Performance-Eating Rabbits (PERs) are not cute or cuddly. They often are not pulled from a hat. They emerge from a different orifice - hence a brown Performance-Eating Rabbit has emerged along with their performance-eating cousins. Yikes!! Rabbits of this variety have one priority: to devour and destroy the performance you were hoping to achieve and/or sustain in your organization.

Performance-Eating Rabbits come in many different types, sizes and appetites. They are hungry and anxious to eat your improvement initiatives early and often. PERs live in your sphere of influence and may be difficult to spot. They blend in easily with their surroundings. These furry creatures could already be wreaking havoc and preventing new innovative ideas. They swiftly derail the outcomes you were hoping to achieve. If you are complacent with the status quo and allow PERs to exist, they will derail any chance of achieving success for your enterprise.

Through our experiences, we have identified and characterized seven types of Performance-Eating Rabbits.

The Famous Seven Performance-Eating Rabbits (PERs)

  • Political Rabbit

  • Hasty Hopper

  • One-Hit-Wonder Wabbit

  • Bias Bunny

  • Complacent Bunny

  • Culture Rabbit

  • Ledge-Walking Rabbit

You may have encountered other types of PERs. We have developed quick methods to identify PERs along with simple actions mitigate their effectiveness. It is critical that we quickly catch and render them incapable of destroying your potential success.