Dr. Jake Taylor Jacobs

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1,094 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 24 Feb

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The surgical services leadership kept complaining about reliability.

David had all the answers for it.

Staffing challenges, physician behaviors, supply chain issues, volume growth, but the answer never seemed to resolve the problem.

When I analyzed this operation, I found the same thing I found with Maria.

a profound disconnect between what the department could see and what the organization was experiencing.

David's metrics measured activity.

The organization's pain came from the outcome.

And there was no bridge between them.

Maria and David weren't bad leaders.

They weren't lazy or incompetent or dishonest.

They were experienced professionals doing their best inside a system that kept them blind to their own impact.

They couldn't fix what they couldn't see.

And they couldn't see what the system didn't show.

This is operational blindness.

And once you understand it, you will see it everywhere.

I want to expand on what you just heard.

What transformation actually looks like.

I painted a picture in that section.

But I want to be more vivid.

I want you to imagine an SPD leader who can answer with data whether the OR got what it needed yesterday.

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