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Managing the Unmanageable Metrics of Complexity, Lecture 5—Slides
Materials to accompany “Metrics of Complexity,” which was planned by Warfield to be Number 5 of an overall series of 14 videotapes to be called "Managing the Unmanageable.” A video of lecture is available. See also, "Metrics for Measuring Complexity."
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Managing the Unmanageable: Process Leadership in Organizations, Lecture Mexico-1 (Draft)
First drafts of transparencies and production notes to accompany "Managing the Unmanageable" lecture Number 1. Planned for presentation in Mexico in Spring semester, 2000, but cancelled, the lecture “Process Leadership in Organizations” was instead made into the first videotape of an overall series of 14 lectures, 9 of which were filmed. See this lecture on video or see the slides for this lecture. See also MTU2000, The Video Lectures.
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Milestones in the History of Thought: Prospectus: A Lecture Series with a Common Theme
A proposal for a "Concise Documentation of the History of Thought" was never presented to GMU administration, simply an idea with beginning outlines in this paper, whereby Warfield would head up a lecture series inviting contributions from GMU faculty. Topics or headings within the proposal for typical lectures are displayed with a few titles of papers by Warfield as starting points.
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Missing Voices in the Social Epistemology Discussion
An article submitted for publication to the Newsletter for Association for Integrative Studies in May 1997. References made to work of Peirce and Hayek
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Mistakes of Commission, Mistakes of Omission
Two tables or lists, labelled Mistakes of Commission and Mistakes of Commission, with an explanatory paragraph which reads: "Here are some of the most common types of mistakes that are made in systems work. The 'Mistakes of Commission" are things people do that they ought not to do. The "Mistakes of Omission" are things people ought to do that they do not do.”
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Model Management: Definitions
Possibly the beginning of a glossary list which was never finished, or perhaps finished under another title.
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A Model of a Discipline
The concepts of “content,” “context” and “process” are applied to the development of a criteria-based model for academic disciplines in higher education. The basic elements of fundamentals which became Warfield`s Domain of Science model are all found in this paper. Notes that C. S. Peirce is an intellectual source for Warfield's work. Presented at 1984 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 9-12 October 1984.
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Modeling Management
Because management is not just an organization chart but rather a dynamic interaction throughout a hierarchy, the overview of an entire organization can be difficult, but the technique presented here can produce a true management representation in a very limited space. This is a highly technical paper, using mathematics of set theory to identify elements, structures, patterns and the relations between them, as they might occur in management situations.
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Modulation Measurements--Theory and Technique
Deals with properties of modulated electronic signals and how to measure them. A tutorial.
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The Multiform Calendar
A satirical article that includes an identification and description of four new types of chronological record: 1) The Scientific Subcalendar keyed to the 72-year average human life expectancy, 2)The Political Subcalendar, keyed to the 4-year presidential term 3) The Technology Subcalendar, keyed to actual calendar years, and 4) The Managerial Subcalendar, keyed to the 3-month horizon of managerial vision
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A Narrative Overview of the Warfield Collection
Warfield prepared this document as an email attachment to correspondence when his papers were being considered for archiving by various libraries. It gives information on the size, content and extent of his academic papers collection, and describes the extent to which the papers are already inventoried or cataloged. There are 12 appendices describing the various types of material in his collection: Papers by Other Authors (The "Comparison" Papers), Interactive Management (IM) Reports, Professional Correspondence, Teaching…
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National Center for Sociotechnical System Research and Design: A Proposal to the National Science Foundation
A manuscript for a (unsuccessful) proposal to initiate Generic Design Science as an academic discipline, with practical applications put to use through a program of Resident and Visiting Fellowships in which the proposed Center would train visiting faculty from other universities. Includes diagraph of Domain of Science Model and photographs of DEMOSOPHIA, the situation room at Center for Interactive Management, GMU.
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