This Is Costing Us Billions—And We’re Pretending It’s Normal

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Distraction is no longer an individual habit. It’s a national productivity crisis.

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Every day, millions of hours are lost to fragmented attention—quietly eroding execution, decision quality, mental fitness, and human connection. The economic cost runs into the billions, but the more serious damage is harder to measure: diminished judgment, weakened relationships, and leaders who are always busy—but rarely present.

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This isn’t about laziness or lack of discipline. It’s about an environment engineered to hijack attention at scale.

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No One Is Immune—Start With the Person in the Mirror

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The first person who needs to be unhijacked isn’t your team.
It’s you.

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Leaders are not exempt from the attention economy. If anything, they are more exposed—more devices, more demands, more cognitive load. And leadership credibility collapses the moment we ask others to practice what we have not mastered ourselves.

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You can’t give away clarity you don’t possess.

You can’t model presence you don’t practice.

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Real change begins with honest self-assessment—not policy, not programs, not preaching.

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Hijacked Is How Leaders Reclaim Attention—Then Culture Follows

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Hijacked is not a book about quitting screens. It’s about reclaiming choice, focus, and presence in a world designed to steal them.

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It helps leaders:

• Understand how attention is systematically hijacked
• See the personal and organizational costs clearly
• Regain the internal discipline required to lead credibly

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When leaders change first, culture follows naturally.

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Start by downloading the first two chapters.

Unhijack the person in the mirror—then decide how far this conversation should go.

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