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Disruptors I Have Known

Some thoughts on the basic personality flaws that cause some people to disrupt and destroy group meetings, which cannot happen if Interactive Management facilitation is done correctly. See also, “The Archaeology of Belief.”

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The Archaeology of Belief

A paper that explores how Warfield’s work on complexity fits with Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge.
Index to Paul Rabinow, ed. The Foucault Reader (New York: Pantheon, 1984) prepared by Warfield. Finding The Foucault Reader a helpful book but lacking an index, Warfield created his own index.
Two pages holding an outline in six parts, starting with “Kant Escape Conditions” from which follow discussion of “ Satisfying the Escape Conditions, ” “Thought about Thought,” “Human Sciences,” “Structure” and “Complexity.”
Comments and quotes Warfield wrote down while reading Friedrich August von Hayek’s The Counter-Revolution of Science: Studies in the Abuse of Reason.
A newspaper clipping about Warfield’s impressive intellect. The full title is “Sullivan, Mo., Boy, 5, Has Mentality Double His Age: Johnnie Warfield Reads Fluently and Does Simple Arithmetic - High Intelligence Rating.” Folder also includes email communication with Warfield’s younger brother, George D. Warfield.
A short note from Von Foerster after Warfield had mailed him a copy of his "Essays on Complexity" an IASIS Report
An abstract of a planned, but never completed, article that argues corporations would benefit from the use of problematiques constructed from the Interactive Management system. Includes typed and handwritten notes.
Some ideas for a talk to be given on Leadership.
A set of 11 pages of a lattice structure and a Delta Chart Warfield drew as a way to help people understand George Friedman’s Constraint Theory. The full title is "Lattice-based Portrayal of Friedman Example Beginning on Page 54 of Dissertation (Inclusion Structure) and "Delta Chart for Friedman's Constraint Theory Algorithm."
A memo or inventory of titles and reference materials which Warfield collected in his study on economics, banking, finance and the like. On the first page is a four part outline for his own research: History of Economics, Roles in Economics, Scale as a Factor in Economics, and Self-Sealing Strategies for the Discipline with sub topics under each heading.
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