Bred To Lead cover art

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

Bred To Lead · Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs

Nov 11, 2025 · 21 min

Show notes

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 staff, overtime, and recruiting. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs calls it the trauma budget, and the prevention tax every organization pays for it.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Why budgets that were too tight for raises suddenly open up when things are on fire

• The hardware and software check: financial systems built…

Excerpt from the publisher’s feed.

Listen

Bred To Lead on Apple Podcasts

Summarize an episode yourself: upload its audio file to the Shorty audio summarizer for a summary and key points.