Bred To Lead
Hosted by Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs
About this Show
PEOPLE AREN'T BORN TO LEAD. THEY'RE BRED TO LEAD.Most organizations don't fail all at once. They break down slowly:• Missed warning signs• Leaders who stopped seeing what's in front of them• Teams that quietly stopped believingBy the time someone calls in a fixer, the damage has been building for years.━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT YOUR HOSTDr. Jake Tayler Jacobs DBA, MBA, B.Ed. | The Business Doctor• President and COO, SIPS Healthcare Solutions• Author of Operational Blindness• Nearly 15 years turning around struggling businessesWHAT EACH EPISODE COVERS• Why leaders and organizations lose their way• The early symptoms most people miss• The people-first habits that keep a team healthy before it needs rescuingWHO IT'S FORStraight talk, real turnaround stories, and practical tools you can use Monday morning, whether you're running a company, leading a department, or stepping into management for the first time.Leadership isn't inherited. It's built. Let's build it.━━━━━━━━━━━━Bred To Lead is powered by SIPS Healthcare Solutions.BredToLead.comSterileByDesign.comSIPSHealthcare.com
Latest Episodes
Bonus: The Next Revolution in Surgery Is Happening Outside the OR
CERTIFIED DOES NOT MEAN VERIFIED TO DO THE JOBRecorded live in front of a room of perioperative leaders, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs and Dr. Edna Gilliam make the case that the next professional revolution in surgery is happening outside the OR, in sterile processing. Dr. Edna, a periop leader who lea...
Ep. 036: The Healthcare Parallel: Why Optimizing the OR Alone Never Works
YOU CAN'T OPTIMIZE DOWNSTREAM WHILE THE CONSTRAINT SITS UPSTREAMEvery week the same meeting happens: the CFO sees rising costs, the COO hears surgeon complaints, the CNO watches quality metrics stall, and SPD says the numbers look fine. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs explains why everyone is right, and g...
Ep. 033: Built to Survive, Not Scale: Rebuild Healthcare While Running
ONLY BROKEN SYSTEMS SHAKE AT 80 PERCENT CAPACITYTwo hospitals in the same city, same patient acuity. One falls apart at 75% capacity, the other runs smooth at 95%. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs explains the difference: one was built to survive, the other was built to scale.IN THIS EPISODE• Six signs of ...
Ep. 031: Stop Funding Chaos: How Organizations Pay for Emergencies and Ignore Prevention
WE FUND CHAOS, STARVE PREVENTION, AND CALL IT DISCIPLINEA periop director brought her executive team a $300,000 two year plan to fix workflows, training, and staffing. They said no budget. Six months later, eight people quit in three weeks and the hospital spent over a million dollars on agency s...
Ep. 029: Decision Paralysis: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Calls
INDECISION IS A DECISION, USUALLY THE WORST ONEAt Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, the pediatric heart surgery program saw mortality rates three times the national average while frontline staff raised alarms and leadership delayed. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs unpacks what he calls prestige paral...
Ep. 028: 90 Days to Make or Break: A $60M Leadership Collapse
YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS DECIDE YOUR WHOLE TENUREIn March 2014, North Adams Regional Hospital in Massachusetts closed with three days' notice, leaving 37,000 residents without their local hospital. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs walks through how new leadership misjudged its reality, cut costs before diagnosin...
Ep. 027: Lessons from the $8 Billion Healthcare System's Collapse
STEWARD HAD PLENTY OF PLANS. WHAT IT LACKED WAS FUTURE FOCUSIn May 2024, Steward Health Care, one of the largest private hospital systems in the country, filed for bankruptcy. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs breaks down how a model built on turning around struggling hospitals failed at the very operationa...
Ep. 023: Beyond Quick Fixes: The Truth About Transforming Organizations
IF YOUR PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE IN CHANGE, NO PROCESS WILL STICKWatching Coach Prime rebuild Colorado football, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs saw what he has taught leaders for years: real transformation starts with belief and culture, not metrics and process maps. He walks through why "we've tried that be...
Ep. 021: Cracking the Leadership Code: Your Blueprint for Mastery
THE HIGHEST PAID POSITION IN THE WORLD IS NOT A TITLEClosing a conference in Delaware, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs told the room that too many people want leadership roles before they have mastered where they are. Using the story of King David, who was the best at every role he held long before he bec...
Ep. 020: The Leadership Paradox in Healthcare: Why Your Experts Might Be Holding You Back
YOUR BEST EXPERT MAY BE YOUR WORST CHOICE TO LEADPicture a hospital that promotes its top surgeon to run perioperative services and its most experienced technician to run sterile processing. Six months later, OR efficiency is down, costs are up, and both new leaders are drowning. Dr. Jake Tayler ...
Ep. 019: Reimagining Healthcare Staffing - Beyond the Quick Fix
TEMP STAFFING SHOULD BE A TOOL, NOT YOUR WHOLE STRATEGYPicture flu season: the ER is overflowing, periop is surging, and two of your most experienced sterile processing techs just retired. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs explains why calling in temps feels like a lifesaver in that moment, and why a pressu...
Ep. 017: The Gritty Reality of Corporate Turnarounds: Lessons from a Corporate Fixer
EVERYONE CAN NAME THE PROBLEM. FEW FIX IT FOR GOOD.Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs pulls back the curtain on life as a corporate fixer, including why SIPS brought in someone from outside healthcare to see things differently. He shares a company that had gone through three CEOs in two years and was six mon...
Ep. 016: Patience Pays: Why Slow and Steady Wins the Leadership Race
YOUR PREPARATION BEFORE THE PROMOTION DECIDES WHETHER YOU SHINE OR BURNDr. Jake Tayler Jacobs tells the story of Alex and Jamie, who start in hospital administration together. Alex jumps at every promotion, reaches senior management first, then struggles with imposter syndrome. Jamie spends three...
Ep. 015: Next Up Leadership: Building a Pipeline of Leaders
CAPABLE BEATS WILLING WHEN YOU PICK YOUR NEXT LEADERDr. Jake Tayler Jacobs introduces Next Up Leadership: building leaders from within before the seat is empty, not after. Drawing on Jethro's advice to Moses, he gives three tests for who deserves your investment: are they capable, are they accoun...
Ep. 014: The True Cost of Neglecting Team Development in Healthcare
TEMP STAFF STOP THE BLEEDING. THEY DO NOT HEAL THE WOUND.Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs runs a staffing and workforce company, and he still calls temporary staffing what it is: a band-aid. He compares it to a temporary parent who leaves when the 13, 26 or 52 week contract ends, and lays out the cycle tha...