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John Warfield to Rosalind Reid
Warfield likely wrote this letter to Reid, editor of American Scientist, an interdisciplinary magazine of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, as part of an effort to promote and advertise Interactive Management.
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John Warfield to Kasey Webrum, INC Magazine reporter
Correspondence between Warfield and Kasey Webrum, a reporter for Inc Magazine regarding Warfield’s contributions to their letters column. Includes copy of Scott Staley’s article on Application of Interactive Management to Ford Motor Company, which had appeared in Systems Science.
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Status of books sent gratis from John Warfield
Letters of acknowledgement from persons who received a donated copy of An Introduction to Systems Science.
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History of Donation of Warfield Collection to GMU and ASU libraries
A series of 41 emails discussing the possibility of archiving Warfield’s papers along with a one-page document that reconstructs the final decision on where to house the papers.
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Correspondence with Andre Gabus
Letters discussing the death of one of Warfield’s old friends, along with an article that listed ISM as “theoretical” and that did not utilize Warfield’s work.
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Parker-Hannefin Workshop and Correspondence
An Interactive Management Workshop took place 8-10 August 2007 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, sponsored by Parker-Hannifin Corporation. Includes emails to/from Warfield, Ben Broome, Steve Krane, Jack Ring, Scott Staley, Phil Ernzen, Carmen Moreno. See notes field for further details on the origin of the Workshop.
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Archie Bahm to John Warfield
Archie Bahm suggests a number of sources for finding information on Charles S. Peirce.
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China Talks CD-2002: Files for Complexity Seminars
These are files on a compact disk loaded with teaching and lecturing aids, mostly PowerPoint slides but also articles on economics and lists and indexes of topics and keywords, which Warfield prepared before he departed for China to give a series of lectures. He carried the disk with him on the trip to use as reference during lectures.
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Illustrating Two Problem Situations
Drawing originally used as to accompany a paper that discusses how humans might tackle and solve the "gigantic mess" problems of society which are currently beyond human endeavor and often beyond human intellectual grasp. Image would later be used frequently at the Center for Interactive Management and appeared in Warfield’s A Science of Generic Design.
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University of Hull Course Outline, Summer 2001
Warfield gave a one-week series of lectures at the Business School, University of Hull, from 2 July to 6 July 2001. The series was part of a 4-week summer school provided by University of Hull Business School to students from ITESM in Mexico. Warfield used slide presentations from his PowerPoint series titled "Managing the Unmanageable (MTU)."
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Understanding Complexity: Seminar talk
A one page summary of the talk that covers topics including complexity metrics and the definition of the term "complexity.” Presented at the School of Business, University of Hull, England, 27 June 2001.
An unfinished manuscript about the development of specialized vocabularies used in different professions and sciences.
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