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Bred To Lead

Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs

39 episodes

PEOPLE AREN'T BORN TO LEAD. THEY'RE BRED TO LEAD.

More about the show

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 believing

By the time someone calls in a fixer, the damage has been building for years.

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ABOUT YOUR HOST Dr. 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 businesses

WHAT 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 rescuing

WHO IT'S FOR Straight 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.

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Bred To Lead is powered by SIPS Healthcare Solutions. BredToLead.com SterileByDesign.com SIPSHealthcare.com

Episodes

  1. Bonus: The Next Revolution in Surgery Is Happening Outside the OR

    · 1 h 06 min · Episode 39 · Bonus

    CERTIFIED DOES NOT MEAN VERIFIED TO DO THE JOB Recorded 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…

  2. Ep. 038: The 10,000-Pound Elephant: Why Old Beliefs Keep Hospitals Chained

    · 34 min · Episode 38

    YOU ARE A 10,000 POUND ELEPHANT CHAINED TO A SMALL STAKE A baby elephant tied to a wooden stake stops pulling. Years later, fully grown, it still doesn't try. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs names the four beliefs keeping…

  3. Ep. 037: The Hidden Beliefs That Keep Healthcare Stuck

    · 39 min · Episode 37

    THE BELIEFS YOU DON'T KNOW YOU HAVE ARE CONTROLLING YOU How do you know the sky is blue? You just know. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs argues that some of what leaders "just know" about their organizations isn't fact at all.…

  4. Ep. 036: The Healthcare Parallel: Why Optimizing the OR Alone Never Works

    · 35 min · Episode 36

    YOU CAN'T OPTIMIZE DOWNSTREAM WHILE THE CONSTRAINT SITS UPSTREAM Every week the same meeting happens: the CFO sees rising costs, the COO hears surgeon complaints, the CNO watches quality metrics stall, and SPD says…

  5. Ep. 035: Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? IBM's Comeback and the Healthcare Lesson

    · 30 min · Episode 35

    THE SAME PEOPLE LOOKED EXCELLENT ONCE THE SYSTEM CHANGED In 1993 IBM posted an $8 billion loss and analysts said to break it up. Lou Gerstner kept most of the same managers and changed the beliefs and systems around…

  6. Ep. 034: From Conformity to Innovation: Rebuild Leadership and Systems

    · 51 min · Episode 34

    TRADITION WITHOUT EVOLUTION IS SLOW DEATH WITH BETTER BRANDING When Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs walked into a 30 year old organization and suggested change, leadership told him "that's not how we do things here." His…

  7. Ep. 033: Built to Survive, Not Scale: Rebuild Healthcare While Running

    · 1 h 07 min · Episode 33

    ONLY BROKEN SYSTEMS SHAKE AT 80 PERCENT CAPACITY Two 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…

  8. Ep. 032: Why The Wrong Leaders Get Promoted

    · 46 min · Episode 32

    WE HIRE FOR CREDENTIALS AND HOPE FOR CAPABILITY The best nurse becomes charge nurse, the best tech becomes director, and nobody asks if they can actually lead. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs calls it the clinical excellence…

  9. Ep. 031: Stop Funding Chaos: How Organizations Pay for Emergencies and Ignore Prevention

    · 21 min · Episode 31

    WE FUND CHAOS, STARVE PREVENTION, AND CALL IT DISCIPLINE A 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…

  10. Ep. 030: From Dependency to Design: Hospitals Shouldn't Have to Rent Stability

    · 24 min · Episode 30

    YOU CAN'T BUILD PERMANENT CHANGE ON TEMPORARY HELP Season three opens with a hard look at the traveler dependency crisis. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs shares the story of Sarah, an eight year critical care nurse who quit…

  11. Ep. 029: Decision Paralysis: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Calls

    · 43 min · Episode 29

    INDECISION IS A DECISION, USUALLY THE WORST ONE At Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, the pediatric heart surgery program saw mortality rates three times the national average while frontline staff raised alarms…

  12. Ep. 028: 90 Days to Make or Break: A $60M Leadership Collapse

    · 50 min · Episode 28

    YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS DECIDE YOUR WHOLE TENURE In 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…

  13. Ep. 027: Lessons from the $8 Billion Healthcare System's Collapse

    · 40 min · Episode 27

    STEWARD HAD PLENTY OF PLANS. WHAT IT LACKED WAS FUTURE FOCUS In 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…

  14. Ep. 026: Success by Design: Why Success Happens Before the Moment

    · 36 min · Episode 26

    YOU CAN ONLY HAVE WHAT YOU ARE Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs comes back from his first real vacation in eight years with a lesson from his mentor: you cannot become a millionaire until you are worth a million. Success…

  15. Ep. 025: Leading Without Authority: Building Influence Beyond Your Title

    · 37 min · Episode 25

    POSITIONAL POWER GETS COMPLIANCE. INFLUENCE GETS COMMITMENT. A senior executive with every title and all the formal authority couldn't get his initiatives off the ground. A mid-level manager with no authority over…

  16. Ep. 024: Closing the Gap: The Hidden Cost of Leadership Isolation

    · 43 min · Episode 24

    AN OPEN DOOR NOBODY WALKS THROUGH IS NOT AN OPEN DOOR One leadership team prided itself on its open door policy, yet almost no one walked through it, because frontline ideas kept getting dismissed. Another had every…

  17. Ep. 023: Beyond Quick Fixes: The Truth About Transforming Organizations

    · 49 min · Episode 23

    IF YOUR PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE IN CHANGE, NO PROCESS WILL STICK Watching Coach Prime rebuild Colorado football, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs saw what he has taught leaders for years: real transformation starts with belief and…

  18. Ep. 022: From Manager to Executive: Mastering the Leadership Transition

    · 1 h 00 min · Episode 22

    MANAGERS PUT OUT FIRES. EXECUTIVES MAKE SURE THEY STAY OUT. Three months after a promotion to executive, Sarah was working longer hours than ever and things were still slipping. In the first live episode of Bred To…

  19. Ep. 021: Cracking the Leadership Code: Your Blueprint for Mastery

    · 45 min · Episode 21

    THE HIGHEST PAID POSITION IN THE WORLD IS NOT A TITLE Closing 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…

  20. Ep. 020: The Leadership Paradox in Healthcare: Why Your Experts Might Be Holding You Back

    · 57 min · Episode 20

    YOUR BEST EXPERT MAY BE YOUR WORST CHOICE TO LEAD Picture a hospital that promotes its top surgeon to run perioperative services and its most experienced technician to run sterile processing. Six months later, OR…

  21. Ep. 019: Reimagining Healthcare Staffing - Beyond the Quick Fix

    · 1 h 17 min · Episode 19

    TEMP STAFFING SHOULD BE A TOOL, NOT YOUR WHOLE STRATEGY Picture flu season: the ER is overflowing, periop is surging, and two of your most experienced sterile processing techs just retired. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs…

  22. Ep. 018: Why Faking It Never Makes It in Leadership

    · 29 min · Episode 18

    BECOME WHO YOU HAVE BEEN PRETENDING TO BE, OR GET EXPOSED Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs was called in to turn around a tech startup whose CEO had an Ivy League résumé and glowing references, much of it inflated or made up.…

  23. Ep. 017: The Gritty Reality of Corporate Turnarounds: Lessons from a Corporate Fixer

    · 50 min · Episode 17

    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.…

  24. Ep. 016: Patience Pays: Why Slow and Steady Wins the Leadership Race

    · 48 min · Episode 16

    YOUR PREPARATION BEFORE THE PROMOTION DECIDES WHETHER YOU SHINE OR BURN Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs tells the story of Alex and Jamie, who start in hospital administration together. Alex jumps at every promotion, reaches…

  25. Ep. 015: Next Up Leadership: Building a Pipeline of Leaders

    · 43 min · Episode 15

    CAPABLE BEATS WILLING WHEN YOU PICK YOUR NEXT LEADER Dr. 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…

  26. Ep. 014: The True Cost of Neglecting Team Development in Healthcare

    · 49 min · Episode 14

    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…

  27. Ep. 013: The Power of Storytelling in Leadership

    · 32 min · Episode 13

    CONTENT WITHOUT CONTEXT GIVES PEOPLE NO REASON TO CARE Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs learned this from his mentor Tony Stevens Sr., who kept answering his questions with stories. Tell someone to sprint home from the office…

  28. Ep. 012: Part 2 - The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

    · 38 min · Episode 12

    IF YOU DON'T GRIP YOUR EMOTIONS, THEY WILL GRIP YOUR LIFE On a new golf course, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs sliced a ball into a homeowner's yard, went in to grab it, and had the owner sprinting out of the house cussing…

  29. Ep. 011: Part I - Mastering the Art of Influence and Persuasion

    · 41 min · Episode 11

    TO CREATE REAL URGENCY, YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO WALK AWAY Season two opens with Bred To Lead reaching number 48 on the US business and leadership charts, and Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs starting a three-part series on…

  30. Ep. 010: Leading Through Change: Cultivating Resilience in a Fast-Paced World

    · 59 min · Episode 10

    THE $4.5 MILLION LOSS THAT TAUGHT HIM FAILURE IS FEEDBACK Before joining SIPS, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs watched the firm he founded lose $4.5 million in 45 days after a bad partnership and red flags he overlooked. He…

  31. Ep. 009: The Leadership Leap: Transforming Management into Purposeful Leadership

    · 34 min · Episode 9

    MANAGERS RUN WHAT WAS BUILT. LEADERS BUILD WHAT COMES NEXT. Too many organizations promote people for hitting short-term targets and keeping the trains running, then wonder why nothing changes. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs…

  32. Ep. 008: Setting Goals and Expectations

    · 38 min · Episode 8

    A GOAL IS JUST A DAYDREAM WITHOUT A TARGET Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs made over thirty million dollars before he turned thirty, with the Rolls Royce and private planes to show for it, and still had to ask his team one…

  33. Ep. 007: Developing and Empowering Your Team

    · 28 min · Episode 7

    YOU CAN'T DELEGATE UNTIL YOU DUPLICATE AND REGULATE Good leaders get results through their own heroics. Great leaders get results by making others the heroes. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs walks through what that takes,…

  34. Ep. 006: Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution

    · 48 min · Episode 6

    STOP COMMITTING ASSUMICIDE ON YOUR BEST RELATIONSHIPS Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs coined a word by accident: assumicide, killing off great relationships by assuming you know what someone means without the facts. In this…

  35. Ep. 005: Prioritizing Employee Wellbeing

    · 39 min · Episode 5

    YOU'RE WORKING ON YOUR OFF TIME BECAUSE YOU WERE INEFFICIENT ON THE CLOCK Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs gets honest about growing so fast that he and his team started burning out, and the coach's question that stopped him…

  36. Ep. 004: Creating a Positive Work Culture

    · 38 min · Episode 4

    YOU ARE THE THERMOSTAT, NOT THE THERMOMETER When Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs came on board at SIPS, he didn't start by overhauling systems. He stripped extra responsibilities off the sales team, had each person master one…

  37. Ep. 003: Building Trust And Cultivating Strong Relationships

    · 18 min · Episode 3

    EVERY KEPT PROMISE IS A DEPOSIT IN THE TRUST BANK Early in his career, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs got tough 360 feedback about his communication style, and his first instinct was to hide. Instead, he brought it to his…

  38. Ep. 002: Redefining Leadership for the 21st Century

    · 35 min · Episode 2

    THE BEST TEAMS AREN'T THE SMARTEST. THEY'RE THE SAFEST. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs admits he once thought he was a great leader, until things went bad and everybody left. In this episode he redefines leadership for the…

  39. Ep. 001: Intro to People-First Leadership

    · 27 min · Episode 1

    WHY THE LEADERS WHO LAST PUT THEIR PEOPLE FIRST In the very first episode of Bred To Lead, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs gets honest about the leader he used to be. He pushed hard, drove results at all costs, and believed…

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