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Bred To Lead
by Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs
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 believing By the time someone calls in a fixer, the damage has been building for years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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, r
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Ep. 038: The 10,000-Pound Elephant: Why Old Beliefs Keep Hospitals Chained
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 healthcare organizations chained the same way, where they came from, and how to…
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Ep. 037: The Hidden Beliefs That Keep Healthcare Stuck
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. It's assumption, and it feels just as certain. IN THIS EPISODE • Why activity...
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Ep. 036: The Healthcare Parallel: Why Optimizing the OR Alone Never Works
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 the numbers look fine. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs explains why everyone is right, and...
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Ep. 035: Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? IBM's Comeback and the Healthcare Lesson
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 them instead. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs opens the Operational Blindness read and…
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Ep. 034: From Conformity to Innovation: Rebuild Leadership and Systems
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 answer: then how is that working for you, and why am I here? The room went silent. IN...
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Ep. 033: Built to Survive, Not Scale: Rebuild Healthcare While Running
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 was built to survive, the other was built to scale. IN THIS EPISODE • Six signs…
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Ep. 032: Why The Wrong Leaders Get Promoted
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 trap and explains why healthcare's leadership famine is a design problem, not a...
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Ep. 031: Stop Funding Chaos: How Organizations Pay for Emergencies and Ignore Prevention
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 people quit in three weeks and the hospital spent over a million dollars on agency...
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Ep. 030: From Dependency to Design: Hospitals Shouldn't Have to Rent Stability
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 after watching her hospital pay travelers $100 an hour while she made $38: "They…
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Ep. 029: Decision Paralysis: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Calls
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 and leadership delayed. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs unpacks what he calls prestige...
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Ep. 028: 90 Days to Make or Break: A $60M Leadership Collapse
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 walks through how new leadership misjudged its reality, cut costs before…
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Ep. 027: Lessons from the $8 Billion Healthcare System's Collapse
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 model built on turning around struggling hospitals failed at the very…
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Ep. 026: Success by Design: Why Success Happens Before the Moment
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 happens before the moment of opportunity arrives, and life gives you what you have...
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Ep. 025: Leading Without Authority: Building Influence Beyond Your Title
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 most of the people she worked with kept getting things done across departments. Dr....
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Ep. 024: Closing the Gap: The Hidden Cost of Leadership Isolation
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 report and metric and was still blindsided by problems any employee could have...
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Ep. 023: Beyond Quick Fixes: The Truth About Transforming Organizations
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 culture, not metrics and process maps. He walks through why "we've tried that...
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Ep. 022: From Manager to Executive: Mastering the Leadership Transition
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 Lead, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs explains why: she was still managing what she should...
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Ep. 021: Cracking the Leadership Code: Your Blueprint for Mastery
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 the story of King David, who was the best at every role he held long before he...
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Ep. 020: The Leadership Paradox in Healthcare: Why Your Experts Might Be Holding You Back
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 efficiency is down, costs are up, and both new leaders are drowning. Dr. Jake Tayler...
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Ep. 019: Reimagining Healthcare Staffing - Beyond the Quick Fix
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 explains why calling in temps feels like a lifesaver in that moment, and why a...
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Ep. 018: Why Faking It Never Makes It in Leadership
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. With the company months from collapse, a humble mid-level manager took the seat,...
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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...
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Ep. 016: Patience Pays: Why Slow and Steady Wins the Leadership Race
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 senior management first, then struggles with imposter syndrome. Jamie spends…
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Ep. 015: Next Up Leadership: Building a Pipeline of Leaders
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 gives three tests for who deserves your investment: are they capable, are they...
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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…
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Ep. 013: The Power of Storytelling in Leadership
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 and they won't. Tell them their house is on fire with their family inside, and…
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Ep. 012: Part 2 - The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
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 him out. Instead of assuming the worst, he centered himself, validated the man's...
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Ep. 011: Part I - Mastering the Art of Influence and Persuasion
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 influence and persuasion. His argument: influence is not manipulation when it…
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Ep. 010: Leading Through Change: Cultivating Resilience in a Fast-Paced World
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 paid $30,000 for one hour with a mentor who runs a half billion dollar hedge fund,...
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Ep. 009: The Leadership Leap: Transforming Management into Purposeful Leadership
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 uses John Kotter's line, management deals with complexity and leadership deals...
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Ep. 008: Setting Goals and Expectations
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 question: to what end? This episode is about finding that higher reason and turning...
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Ep. 007: Developing and Empowering Your Team
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, including the story of a leader who wanted to micromanage a struggling team member…
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Ep. 006: Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution
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 episode he unpacks why so much workplace conflict starts with a quiet third party...
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Ep. 005: Prioritizing Employee Wellbeing
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 cold. He also shares the night he found his mom crying in the kitchen after his…
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Ep. 004: Creating a Positive Work Culture
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 thing, and started daily meetings that opened with gratitude. In this episode he...
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Ep. 003: Building Trust And Cultivating Strong Relationships
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 next team meeting, owned it, and asked for their help. That moment of vulnerability...
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Ep. 002: Redefining Leadership for the 21st Century
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 21st century, and shares the high-stakes project where he stopped trying to fix it...
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Ep. 001: Intro to People-First Leadership
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 being the smartest person in the room was the job. Then a 360 review came back…
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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 believing
By the time someone calls in a fixer, the damage has been building for years.
━━━━━━━━━━━━
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, r
HOSTED BY
Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs
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