This week’s guest on REPORT FROM SANTA FE is native New Mexican JOSHUA COOPER RAMO, author of the international best-seller "The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks." Based in Beijing and New York, Ramo serves as an advisor to some of the largest companies and investors in the world. He is co-CEO of Kissinger Associates, and is a member of the boards of directors of Starbucks and Fedex.

In this groundbreaking new book “The Seventh Sense,” Ramo introduces a powerful way of seeing the world. Ramo tells the story of what the majority of today’s successful figures see and feel – forces that are invisible to most of us, but explain everything from explosive technological changes, to uneasy political ripples.

The secret to power now, is understanding our new age of networks – not merely the Internet, but also networks of trade, and DNA, and finance. Based on his years of advising generals, CEOs, and politicians, Ramo explores the opaque heart of our world’s rapidly connected systems, and teaches what the victors of this age know – and what the losers are not yet seeing. Ramo and “The Seventh Sense” won’t merely change the way you see the world. They will also give you, yourself the power to change it

Joshua Cooper Ramo's views on global politics and economics have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, Foreign Policy and Fortune. He has been a frequent guest on CNN, CNBC, NBC and PBS. In 2008, he served as China Analyst for NBC, during the Beijing Olympic Games. For his work with Bob Costas and Matt Lauer during the Opening Ceremony, Ramo shared in a Peabody and Emmy award. Prior to entering the advisory business, Ramo was a journalist. He was the youngest senior editor and foreign editor in the history of Time magazine, wrote more than 20 cover stories, and ultimately oversaw the magazine’s technology coverage and online activities.

Quotes:

"The next president needs to read The Seventh Sense, starting on the morning of Nov. 9th. Joshua Ramo's latest book is a fascinating guide to the way the world is changing."― Malcolm Gladwell, author of David and Goliath

“The central new reality of the world we live in today is connectivity. People, computers, other machines, almost everything is getting linked and these new networks are spewing oceans of information. How should we navigate this brave new world? Ramo writes with ease and authority about the technology, history, and foreign policy of this power shift,giving us an essential guide for the future."― Fareed Zakaria, author of In Defense of a Liberal Education

"Joshua Cooper Ramo has written a book that combines historic sweep and incisive detail. A great book, and a useful one. The Seventh Sense is a concept every businessman, diplomat, or student should aspire to master -- a powerful idea, backed by stories and figures that will be impossible to forget."

― Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators

"In this hyper networked world remade fresh every day, with new perils and new opportunities, there is one book to be sure to read: Joshua Ramo's new book, a masterpiece, The Seventh Sense. To understand the tsunami of the networked age, you need history, biography, tech, philosophy, politics--and you want a book that has a depth beyond whatever else you could be streaming, podcasting, or wiki-ing. This is that book."― Reid Hoffman, Chairman/Founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock