I heard How to Think Like a Roman Emperor mentioned on a podcast recently and decided to check it out. It’s a New York Times Best Seller and out of 1,700+ reviews on Amazon it has a 4.5 out of 5 rating so I decided to buy it.

What a great book. Johann breaks down the most recent research in easy to understand english and as importantly offers suggestions on how to how to restore our attention that we’re allowing to be stolen from us. It wears us out and makes us dumber, literally, as in it decreases our IQ.

As a business owner or senior executive this book couldn’t be more important for you to read because of the negative impact stolen attention is having on your company’s productivity. Get a load of these stats:

In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only 65 seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes.

Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention – and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

You can’t afford not to read or listen to this book! Recommended.