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
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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…
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