Ron McFarland

2915 points

Tokyo, Japan

Ron McFarland has been working in Japan for over 40 years, and he's spent more than 30 of them in international sales, sales management training, and expanding sales worldwide. He's worked in or been to more than 80 countries. Over the most recent 17 years, Ron had established distributors in the United States and throughout Europe for a Tokyo-headquartered, Japanese hardware cutting tool manufacturer. More recently, he's begun giving seminars in English and Japanese to people interested in his overseas travels and expanding business overseas. You can find him on LinkedIn.

Open Source Sensei People's Choice Award Sustainability Author Contributor Club Open Organization Ambassador

Authored Content

Building open organizations to make a better life more sustainable for everyone

By opening our approach to ensuring prosperity for all, we can advance more sustainable solutions.

Sustainable economic development begins with open thinking

Do our global development practices respect planetary boundaries? Greater transparency could provide insight.

A guide to planning the next 50 years of your career

Over the next half-century, our work environments will change. How can you plan to change with them?

A graduate degree could springboard you into an open source job

How to thrive in our changing work environments

In the future, we could be working in environments full of fragmented attention and extreme isolation. Are we prepared?

How open principles will impact the future of work

In many ways, the nature of our work defines us. So how do we prepare for a future when the nature of work will change dramatically?

Openness is the key to innovation, history shows

History demonstrates the kinds of organizational structures that foster innovation: open, communal, and humble. Here are just two examples.

Authored Comments

Ron McFarland

3 Jun 2022

Looking into the future of collaborative commons

I was just watching some panel discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos. One thing that came to mind was the pace of transparency around the global which leads to more standardization. With more transparency, standardization will explode. That will lead to the introduction of even more collaborative commons.

Ron McFarland

27 May 2022

Open exchange, open doors, open minds: A recipe for global progress

Norberg writes about the importance of open societies, particularly addressing global issues like climate change, pandemics, world hunger and international conflicts. There is another one that might be equally important as those, global obesity. Notice this presentation: https://youtu.be/DboTyNu-FLk