The DR.CHICKS™ Bio-Economic Clinic™ opens Chapter Four with its most unsettling diagnosis yet: what happens when a living system's own decision-making circuitry is quietly rerouted by something else entirely—and what that means for teams, leaders, and organizations that believe they are still steering themselves. Through seven real biological case studies, from targeted neural manipulation to parasites that erase fear and redirect instinct, Shadi Shehadeh reveals how control can be lost while capability, activity, and outward performance remain intact. Mechanism tables, Executive Insight callouts, and peer-reviewed sources translate these hijack strategies into a practical diagnostic framework for detecting compromised autonomy inside people, teams, and organizations before the fracture becomes visible. Using systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and bio-economic analysis, The Hijacked Autonomy shows what was hijacked, how the hijack works, and how to reclaim decision ownership.
