Podcast 984: Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation Through Complexity with Ron Schultz

Joining me for this podcast is a good friend of mine, Ron Schultz. We're gonna talk about a milestone which is the 25th anniversary edition of one of his books co-authored by Howard Sherman entitled Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation through Complexity. Ron Schultz has written, co-written and edited 25 published books on social innovation, meditation, emergence, science, and entrepreneurship. In 2014, he received the Social Innovation Leadership Award from the World CSR Congress. In addition to his book publishing credentials, Ron has written hundreds of nationally published magazine articles, and has had an extensive career in television and film. Going back to one of Ron's masterpieces, co-authored by the late Howard Sherman, Open Boundaries emerged out of years of seminars which attracted businesses and enterprises from around the world grappling with rapid change. Since it was first published 25 years ago, the book has been recognized as a seminal work in leading Enterprise Complexity. The process of interaction and emergence introduced in this book, exposes the myth that enterprise complexity can be managed. If you want to know more about Ron, you may click here to visit their company website; and if you want to purchase the 25th anniversary edition of Open Boundaries, you may click here to order their hardcover format; or paperback edition. You may also buy this good to read book through this link. I hope you enjoy my engaging interview with Ron Schultz. Thanks and happy listening! THE BOOK Leading the way to these adjacent opportunities is why the ideas in Open Boundaries continue to create a new future. They are as needed today as they were when they first shattered enterprise thinking. There is a good reason it, as well as the other books in the Re-Emerge collection, are classics. They are not about control and order, but a means of understanding and meeting the complexity encountered and leading it to a new and vital future. THE AUTHOR Ron Schultz has written, co-written and edited 25 published books on social innovation, meditation, emergence, science, and entrepreneurship. In 2014, he received the Social Innovation Leadership Award from the World CSR Congress. Among his books are: Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); The Complex Buddhist – Doing Good in a Challenging World, (Emergent Publications 2015); Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation through Complexity, (Perseus Books, 1998) and Unconventional Wisdom - Twelve Remarkable Innovators Tell How Intuition Can Revolutionize Decision Making (HarperCollins, 1994).

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