BLINDED BY FOCUS:

BLINDED BY FOCUS is an “intellectual adventure story” perfect for the Gladwell readership eager for fresh insight into how we really function as individuals and as a society. It's an urgent call to action for a course change. The writing here is lucid and engaging and the subject and message hugely relevant. It's a book that we truly need.

This is a fascinating, big-idea book about a critical “malfunction” of our time – a massive deficit of common sense, an inability to see “the big picture” – that profoundly affects everyone's life in manifold domains, with the impact felt in our health care, our personal finances, commerce, transportation, energy, education and the global economic system at large. In a series of involving on-point stories and vivid examples drawn straight from current headlines, Mansharamani adroitly examines the variety of causes for this often unacknowledged, but deeply unbalanced dynamic, including the outsourcing of our thoughts to experts and technology, and proposes a series of creative solutions to reclaim our critical ability to think for ourselves and successfully navigate uncertainty. Vikram holds a Ph.D. and MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS in Political Science from the MIT Security Studies Program, and a BA from Yale University. A frequent keynote speaker on global economic issues, he has given over 100 talks in the past two years to audiences ranging in size from 20 to several thousand.