Dr. Jake Taylor Jacobs
speaker
1,094 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Feb
Dr. Jake Taylor Jacobs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Costs are up again.
Instrument budgets are blown.
Premium labor through the roof.
Revenue leaking somewhere it can't be traced.
The COO is fielding complaints from surgical services.
Starting late, surgeons frustrated, OR efficiency stuck at a ceiling nobody can break through.
The CNO is watching quality metrics that won't improve.
Near misses ticking up root cause analysis that keep pointing back to the same place of inflection.
And when they turn to SPD directors and ask what exactly is happening, they get explanations like staffing challenges, volume spikes, supply chain issues, difficult surgeons.
All of it is true.
None of it's satisfying.
The meeting ends, action items are signed.
Everyone agrees to try harder.
Six months later, same meeting, same conversation, same frustration.
Last episode, I told you about IBM and how Lou Gertzner discovered that the problem wasn't the people, it was the system.
Today, I'm bringing that lesson home because what happened at IBM is happening in your hospitals all across America right now.
This is bread to leave.
I'm excited to be back.
You're on the show again.
I'm excited to welcome you back, Bridge Builders, to Bread to Lead.
Showing 601–620 of 1,094 · page 31 of 55
← Previous
Next →