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1. Bonus: The Next Revolution in Surgery Is Happening Outside the OR

   23 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 6 min

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   CERTIFIED DOES NOT MEAN VERIFIED TO DO THE JOB Lees meer

   Recorded live in front of a room of perioperative leaders, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs and Dr. Edna Gilliam make the case that the next professional revolution in surgery is happening outside the OR, in sterile processing. Dr. Edna, a periop leader who learned SPD for herself, explains why she took the assessment before asking her own leaders to.

   IN THIS EPISODE
   • How surgery came into the hospital, and why OR nurses organized in 1949 while sterile processing went 45 years without a career path
   • What surfaced when 125 SPD leaders across 189 facilities were assessed: certifications alone were not enough
   • Operational blindness: why so many periop leaders see SPD as a black box, and why temporary fixes don't change permanent damage
   • Process, people, performance: a development track that turns technicians into verified operators

   KEY TAKEAWAY
   "If you don't give people something to progress to, they begin to cannibalize where they are."

   FREE GUIDES FROM SIPS
   Certification is not verification
   What is Operational Blindness?
   Sterile Processing Knowledge Center

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2. Ep. 038: The 10,000-Pound Elephant: Why Old Beliefs Keep Hospitals Chained

   17 februari 2026 · 34 min

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   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 break each one.

   IN THIS EPISODE
   • Why "SPD will always be reactive" confuses responding to demand with always being behind it
   • The math on "cost center": a $50 million OR losing 3% to SPD drag leaks $1.5 million
   • Why the OR's dissatisfaction is a signal, not a character flaw
   • How "we're doing the best we can" sets a false ceiling, and why you propose a business case instead of a budget ask

   YOUR CHALLENGE
   Ask your OR: what would excellent SPD support look like to you, and what would have to be true for you to trust us completely? Then really listen.

   FREE GUIDES FROM SIPS
   What is Operational Blindness?
   Sterile Processing Knowledge Center

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3. Ep. 037: The Hidden Beliefs That Keep Healthcare Stuck

   2 februari 2026 · 39 min

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   THE BELIEFS YOU DON'T KNOW YOU HAVE ARE CONTROLLING YOU Lees meer

   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 metrics like turnaround time and volume can look fine while the OR goes without what it needs
   • Five belief markers to listen for, including "that's just how it is" and "it's always been this way"
   • How an invisible belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and why lean can make a workaround more efficient instead of removing it
   • Four techniques to surface hidden beliefs, from outside perspective to looking at what you're not measuring

   KEY TAKEAWAY
   The discomfort of questioning is nothing compared to the cost of not questioning. Courage to question is the price of transformation.

   FREE GUIDES FROM SIPS
   What is Operational Blindness?
   Sterile Processing Knowledge Center

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4. Ep. 036: The Healthcare Parallel: Why Optimizing the OR Alone Never Works

   20 januari 2026 · 35 min

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   YOU CAN'T OPTIMIZE DOWNSTREAM WHILE THE CONSTRAINT SITS UPSTREAM Lees meer

   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 gives the condition a name.

   IN THIS EPISODE
   • Why OR improvement efforts stall at a ceiling when SPD, the upstream constraint, goes unaddressed
   • The definition of operational blindness: leaders can't see dysfunction because measurement and feedback systems don't surface it
   • The NASCAR picture: the surgeon is the driver, the OR is the pit crew, SPD is the garage
   • What operational blindness looks like from the CFO, COO, CNO, SPD director and C suite seats

   KEY TAKEAWAY
   Fix the people and send them back to the same system, you get the same problem. Fix the system, you fix the problem.

   FREE GUIDES FROM SIPS
   Surgical case readiness
   Sterile Processing Knowledge Center

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5. Ep. 035: Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? IBM's Comeback and the Healthcare Lesson

   15 januari 2026 · 30 min

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   THE SAME PEOPLE LOOKED EXCELLENT ONCE THE SYSTEM CHANGED Lees meer

   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 teach series with that story and what it means for healthcare.

   IN THIS EPISODE
   • Dr. Jake reads "The Elephant Everyone Forgot" from Operational Blindness, word for word, then breaks it down
   • The three invisible beliefs that nearly killed IBM, including "the culture can't change"
   • Healthcare's own invisible beliefs: SPD will always be reactive, it's just a cost center, the OR will never be satisfied
   • What executives, SPD leaders and surgical services should each take from Gerstner's turnaround

   YOUR CHALLENGE
   Before you replace another director, ask: do they have visibility into their real impact, the resources to succeed, and a measurement system that shows what matters?

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6. Ep. 034: From Conformity to Innovation: Rebuild Leadership and Systems

   9 januari 2026 · 51 min

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   TRADITION WITHOUT EVOLUTION IS SLOW DEATH WITH BETTER BRANDING Lees meer

   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 THIS EPISODE
   • The four stages of a slowly eroding industry, starting with losing young talent and ending in irrelevance
   • Why stagnant and stable look alike but are not, and why stagnant things rot
   • Five principles of innovative leadership, including building a coalition of the willing before you ask for the yes
   • Why gumption without systems is chaos, and why you lead with evidence, not just vision

   YOUR CHALLENGE
   Identify one tradition in your organization that everyone accepts but nobody questions, and ask why. If you can't get a good answer, start redesigning it.

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7. Ep. 033: Built to Survive, Not Scale: Rebuild Healthcare While Running

   15 december 2025 · 1 uur 7 min

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   ONLY BROKEN SYSTEMS SHAKE AT 80 PERCENT CAPACITY Lees meer

   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 of survival infrastructure, including daily heroes and knowledge that walks out the door every night
   • Why "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" and the five step playbook for rebuilding while you keep running
   • Piloting in parallel: running a new SPD workflow on first shift until second shift begged to switch
   • A case study: 47 unnecessary steps removed, 20% more volume with fewer staff, SPD turnover from 67% to 8%

   YOUR CHALLENGE
   Start this week. Pull six weeks of data and find the capacity where overtime, errors and complaints spike. That is your shaking point.

   FREE GUIDES FROM SIPS
   SPD KPIs and quality metrics
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8. Ep. 032: Why The Wrong Leaders Get Promoted

   25 november 2025 · 46 min

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   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 talent problem.

   IN THIS EPISODE
   • Why the skills that get you promoted (reliable, liked, busy) are not the skills that make you effective
   • The five capabilities leaders need: systems thinking, emotional intelligence, change management, development mindset, strategic foresight
   • His "three layers down" model for building bench strength, and Xerox's measure of what top people did after leaving
   • Five fixes, from parallel clinical and leadership tracks to making succession planning a performance metric

   YOUR CHALLENGE
   Look at your last five promotions. Did you assess for leadership capacity, or just reward past performance?

   FREE GUIDES FROM SIPS
   SPD manager training and leadership
   SPD career ladder
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9. Ep. 031: Stop Funding Chaos: How Organizations Pay for Emergencies and Ignore Prevention

   11 november 2025 · 21 min

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   WE FUND CHAOS, STARVE PREVENTION, AND CALL IT DISCIPLINE Lees meer

   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 for widgets, leaders trained in crisis mode
   • Everything has an ROI: retention, efficiency, innovation, reputation, and outcomes
   • Five ways to build a prevention focused budget, starting with "can we afford not to?"

   YOUR CHALLENGE
   Pull your last three years of financials, total your crisis spending, and ask what 10% of it could have prevented.

   FREE GUIDES FROM SIPS
   SPD KPIs and quality metrics
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10. Ep. 030: From Dependency to Design: Hospitals Shouldn't Have to Rent Stability

    4 november 2025 · 24 min

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    YOU CAN'T BUILD PERMANENT CHANGE ON TEMPORARY HELP Lees meer

    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 can find money for strangers, but not for people who stayed."

    IN THIS EPISODE
    • Leadership is the software, systems are the hardware, and hospitals keep crashing when neither gets upgraded
    • The hidden costs of renting stability: knowledge drain, culture erosion, and broken patient continuity
    • Four design principles: build your own pipeline, compensation transparency, scheduling as strategy, and leadership that listens
    • Why leaders who only plan for one term rarely leave lasting change, and why SIPS built Sterile By Design

    YOUR CHALLENGE
    Ask yourself: am I managing crises or preventing them? Am I renting stability or building it?

    FREE GUIDES FROM SIPS
    Temp staffing vs outsourcing vs integrated management
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