The U.S. honored its more than 1.1 million war dead yesterday. The same day, thousands more lost their jobs to a downsizing playbook 40 years of research shows doesn't work. From Klarna's failed AI rehire reversal to MIT's 2025 NANDA findings on enterprise AI struggles, the data keeps revealing the same pattern: when companies forget the knowledge their people carry, the cost compounds for years. So why do we keep repeating the same mistakes, and what does it take to actually