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The Leaning Tower of Ivory
A critique of the lowering standards of higher education in the United States.
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Review of a proposed book on systems engineering methodology
Warfield included this book review in an email to Cihan Dagli in November 2006. Part of an ongoing correspondence between Warfield and Dagli about Warfield’s consideration of moving to University of Missouri, Rolla’s Systems Department. See notes field for text of communication.
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APRES LE DELUGE, WHAT? by Goldcreature
A posting on a list-serve in which Warfield champions the use of his own system and alludes to the coming economic crisis and how it could be resolved.
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Welcoming Arms: Michel Foucault and the Systems Community
Written as an imaginary conversation between a modern-day interviewer and Michel Foucault, Warfield discusses Foucault’s study of systems of thought. Provides suggestions for future elaboration of systems thinking.
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Economics: A Hodgepodge of Incoherent Schools of Theory
An unfinished paper consisting of an abstract and two beginning pages of the manuscript that discusses economics theory and how systems structural methods could be integrated into the field of study.
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Misappropriation of Science
Unfinished three page paper that explores the poor use of the scientific method. Includes examples involving Comte, the Santa Fe School, Fischer on economics, and Forrester’s world model.
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Insight Management
Unpublished article with an analysis of twelve prototypical insight management styles and the recommendation that a structural information style is best entry mode for management insight, and can provide needed flexibility for follow up of any of the other eleven styles, if appropriate. See also, “Managing Insight.”
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Managing Insight
An incomplete paper that argues that individual executives lack exceptional insight into the complexity in the situations for which they exercise oversight. As a result, they do not deserve the exorbitant levels of compensation currently provided. Asserts that insight management is a topic demanding highly-selective group process activity, as opposed to executive command performance. See also, “Insight Management.”
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Bibliography for Mahmood Zanjirchi, Iran
Email exchanges between Warfield and a student in Iran. Warfield includes a three page bibliography of 14 of his papers and books which he deemed as most helpful to the student.
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MTU2000, The Video Lectures
This is an album of seven disks combining 9 videotaped lectures and their companion PowerPoint slides.
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Linguistic Gradations in Conceptualization
This material is part of the working papers which preceded a published article titled “ Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology.” Includes a two page paper titled “Linguistic Gradations in Conceptualization,” a one page paper titled “Priors and the Doctrine of Necessity,” a one page paper titled “Introduction,” and finally there are eleven pages with handwritten notations by Warfield.
The entries in this bibliography date from 1972 through 1990, and include books, papers, reports, talks, published and unpublished materials by both Warfield and his colleagues. Also includes a listing of the research reports produced by the Institute's Center for Interactive Management as well as lists of Organizations, Individuals and Publications connected in some way with the work of the Institute. For Part 1, see “Annotated Bibliography: Generic Systems Design & Interactive Management (PART 1).”
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