Declares that the primary goal of higher education should be to prepare citizens for democracy. Calls for an infrastructure which could support interactions between a re-defined three-part educational system consisting of a University College, a Professional College and a Horizons College. Presented 26 October 1995 at Mason Hall, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

The first page is a list of topical headings, numbered, then re-numbered, there are about 12 or 13 topics. Later pages refer to work of Lindblom, C.S. Peirce, Bales, Kemeny and others. Includes two-three pages which appear to be the beginning of a paper titled "Productivity of Groups.”

Uses examples from both government and industry to identify and compare 4 aspects of organizational decision-making in an effort to diminish the bad practices that go on in organizations. Three of these four aspects (groupthink, clanthink, and spreadthink) are cautionary and ask high-level managers to understand and become more selective in dealing with what is involved in group judgments in organizations. The presentation of the other aspect (linkthink) is prescriptive. Although it is founded on…

Guide to the use of the John N. Warfield Collection located in Special Collections and Archives, Fenwick Library, George Mason University. This edition contains two articles which were later published and were replaced for the second edition.

Guide to the use of the John N. Warfield Collection located in Special Collections and Archives, Fenwick Library, George Mason University. See also the first edition.

After November of 1991, the Handbook underwent several revisions and enlargements with the assistance of Roxana Cardenas. We have saved three of the pre-publication handbooks done by Warfield & Cardenas. Full citation: Warfield and Cárdenas, A Handbook of Interactive Management (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1994).

Drafts of A Handbook of Interactive Management completed prior to collaboration with Roxana Cardenas. All of these drafts are about 148 pages in length, but there is no continuous page numbering. Each section is numbered separately, and several planned sections have not yet been inserted. Final citation: Warfield and Cárdenas, A Handbook of Interactive Management (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1994).

This is a (now obsolete) compact disk of a WordPerfect version of the original prepublication manuscript for the 1994 book A Handbook of Interactive Management, published by Iowa State University Press. Saved for historical reference. For the updated pdf version, see “A Handbook of Interactive Management, Compact Disk Edition 2005.”

Beginning document for what later became the Handbook published in 1994. Folder includes copy of a well-organized manuscript was stored, with index divider tabs, handwritten notes on book organization, and computer printouts done between February and April, 1991. There are 145 consecutive document pages, and 4 small appendices, or extra sections not yet developed. Also includes communications between Warfield and colleagues working at DSMC regarding the project.

Documents and communications related to meeting held on 26 July 1999 at George Mason University. Participants included James H. Finkelstein, Daniele C. Struppa and John N. Warfield. Participants discussed Warfield’s suggestions for curriculum changes.

A description of the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) process. Includes history of its mathematical "ancestors" and a list of names of the important thinkers who contributed to the mathematical logic supporting ISM theory. Copies of slides or transparencies used for the talk attached. A bibliography lists names of persons currently working with ISM concepts and titles of papers on Interpretive Structural Modeling. Appendix, “Some Applications of Interpretive Structural Modeling,” provided basis for later presentation. Presented…

Ephemera relating to Warfield’s trip to Taiwan. Likely includes brochures of the conference or meeting Warfield attended.