How Organizations Lose Their Minds — From Circuit City to the 2026 AI Layoffs

I fear that in 2026 we are witnessing the exact same pathology that destroyed Circuit City, playing out on a global scale, dressed in the language of artificial intelligence. Organizations do not die from a single bad bet. They die because the internal apparatus for perceiving reality, processing information, and executing strategy has already degraded.

The winners will not be the firms that fire fastest. They will be the ones that can still think, still listen, still see. The rest will call it transformation all the way down.