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The Operating Week Ahead: Week of October 27th, 2025

Operating Fast & Slow

The Operating Week Ahead: 10.19.25 to 10.26.25

Thursday Operating Note: The Opportunity Found in Hard Conversations

Daily Operating Note: Silos Don’t Kill Productivity.

Tuesday Operating Note: The EQ + IQ Operating Edge

Monday Operating Note: Ship Better Work

SORRY Is Not a Solution

Operating Economics: Building Antifragile Companies

Operating Economics: 10 Concepts from Google’s Economist to Help You Build a Better Company

Build or Be Left Behind

Orchestrator or Utility?

The Compounding Effect of Boring AI

The Operator’s Edge: Adaptive Company Cultures For Our Transformative Times

Start With The Work, Not The Why

How You Operate is the Most Important Thing

The Bridge to Our Future Success: Why Operational Excellence Matters Most

The Week Ahead: Operating Notes

Operating Visuals: Faster But Not Different

The Operating Week | 8.29.25

Operating Visual Briefs: New Research From Stanford Signals a Canary in the Gen-AI Jobs Debate

The Week Ahead: Operating by John Brewton (8.24.25 to 8.31.25)

The Problem of AI-Transformation For Large Companies

The 4th Industrial Revolution

Operating Economics: The Lump of Labor Fallacy

Operating Note: 8.13.25

Operating Note - Our World Today

Scaling Down Blue Ocean Strategy

The Operating Week Ahead

Scaling Down the Big Ideas: Rethinking Porter's Five Forces

Operating Economics: Understanding the Agency Problem for Today's Companies

Scaling Down the Big Ideas: Jim Collins, Good to Great

The Man Who Invented Companies:

The Reverse Acquihire

Andy Grove's Playbook for Operators:

What do an Austrian Economist, a Harvard Business School professor, and a Silicon Valley Oligarch have in common?

GenZ, Dropout Nerds, and The Great Reorganization (What Cluely Taught Us)

Strategic Architecture for Peak-Performance 1:1 Meetings:

The Enduring Human Element

The AI-Worker Alignment Crisis: A Strategic Guide for Business Leaders

We Are All Becoming Operators:

The Professional Conductor

Personal Brand is the Human Differentiator

The Right Tool for the Right Problem:

The Great Inversion: How AI Makes Humanity the Premium Skill

The End Of The World As We Know It...And I Feel Fine...

Bad Bad Bad (Data) Good Better Best (Data)

The Great Flattening

Structure Follows Strategy: From Railroads to Algorithms

AI & the Company Brain

What Gets Measured Gets Managed

Workflows Eat Org Charts for Lunch

Slack Isn’t Strategy. Focus Is Infrastructure:

The Big Power of Small Wins

The Team Eats Strategy & Execution For Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner