Archive - Operating by John Brewton

Psychological Safety Needs a Fifth Behavior. Challenge the AI.

Scaling Down The Big Ideas: Making the Big Ideas Immediately Actionable For Operators

15 hrs ago • John Brewton

Operating Stories: The Star Acquisition Company

How the Los Angeles Lakers turned 80 years of one operating decision into a $10 billion company

May 7 • John Brewton

Talking Content, Consulting & Hedge Funds John Brewton & Claudia Quintella

A recording from John Brewton's live video

May 6 • John Brewton and Claudia Quintela

49:03

The Mckinsey Seven Ss Became Eight in 2023

Tom Peters and Robert Waterman built the McKinsey 7-S model in 1980. The Stack joined as the eighth in 2023. Most orgs and strategies charts have not…

May 3 • John Brewton

Philip Kotler formalized STP at Kellogg in 1969 to make personalization economically possible.

Philip Kotler taught a generation of marketers to think in three sequential acts.

May 2 • John Brewton

April 2026

Live with John Brewton

A recording from John Brewton's live video

Apr 29 • John Brewton and Wessal Khader

56:52

Operating Stories: Claude and the three decisions that built a $380 billion company

Anthropic's playbook traces three centuries of operating precedent. The Traitorous Eight. Andy Grove. John D. Rockefeller.

Apr 29 • John Brewton

Disruption Used to Take a Decade. Now It Takes a Year.

Christensen wrote about disk drives in 1997. The framework now applies to your career.

Apr 27 • John Brewton

The Walt Disney Method For The Agent Era

Dream. Plan. Critique.

Apr 26 • John Brewton

Porter’s Five Forces, Reread for 2026

Industry boundaries are now capability stacks. Buyer power moved to AI agents. The framework still holds. The reading order inverted.

Apr 25 • John Brewton

Operating with Claude

Claude is not a chat window. Claude is a four-division company.

Apr 20 • John Brewton

Operating Stories: The $20 Billion Swing - How Uber turned losses into a cash machine.

Operating Stories. The Dara Khosrowshahi era, 2017 through Q1 2026.

Apr 15 • John Brewton

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