The computer file (accelerating Mexico City) contains talk manuscript written September 1994, with transparency list presented in Mexico City 22 October 1994. This talk was actually presented two times. It was presented first in Mexico City, October 1994, and again in November 1994, in Tokyo, using slightly different materials. The date on this abstract is 26 Sept.1994. In this talk, Warfield stresses the need for making management responsive to his "17 Laws of Complexity" by use of structural models and good group processes. Techniques for doing this are contained in his Interactive Management support system which has been developed over the past 15 years and tested in many applications. SEE ALSO the Warfield IASIS report titled "Origins & Remedies for Situational Complexity in Organizations” which is a 40-page Report containing all or most of the transparencies used for both the Mexico and Japan presentations in 1994.

TRANSPARENCIES SELECTED FOR USE IN The MEXICO TALK (probably not all of them were used, but all of them were taken to the meeting): Three primary reasons for poor intellectual productivity (Boulding); Major knowledge contributions and development periods; Visual representation of voting records (Type 1 and Type 2); Distribution of votes across problems; Comparing individual importance voting patterns with high-influence pattern; North American organizations involved in IM with duration of activity; Other organizations involved in IM with duration of activity; Typical work program for task-oriented interdisciplinary group; Typical voting process; Organizational requirements stemming from Laws of Complexity (3 transparencies); Example situations and possible consequences; Spreadthink – definition; Interactions in interpreting Laws of Complexity; Laws of Complexity structured by focus and function; Complexity is an attribute; Necessity of Structural Thinking; Levels in design thinking; Inadequate linguistics; Kant on "Enlightenment"; Beginning of effective group interaction; Themes of research on complexity; Received doctrine--testing and selective revision--the beginning of discovery; Disciplined skepticism--the beginning of enlightenment.