Presents the fundamentals of what would become a paper entitled “Structural Thinking: Producing Effective Organizational Change.” That paper introduces 17 "Laws of Complexity" and maintains that their use, in connection with "computer-assisted relational thinking to construct relationships among factors involved in complex issues" will furnish the necessary information to enable quality control to be applied to description, diagnosis, prescription and implementation of complex issues. Includes outline of talk and list of transparencies used. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Integrative Studies, held in Detroit, Michigan, October 8, 1993.
The precursor to the Laws of Complexity papers, this talk presented the fundamentals of what later became the Silver Anniversary paper, and later revisions on the same theme. This presentation was the first approach to what became a much longer paper, described in the Access Database ID-684 titled "Structural Thinking: Producing Effective Organizational Change." Warfield's "talk outline" consists of topics numbered one through thirteen, beginning with "Thinking as a topic for discussion" and ending with "What criteria should be used?" Following the "Talk Outline" is a list of the transparencies used in the October 1993 presentation.
