Essays on Complexity 1995-1996

A manual containing six papers about complexity that Warfield wrote between 1995 and 1996. All of them had been previously printed and distributed as separate papers. The paper titles are: “Spreadthink Explaining Ineffective Groups,” “Demands of Complexity on Systems Science,” “Structural Thinking: Organizing Complexity . . .” (Warfield & Staley), “Five Schools of Thought About Complexity,” “The Corporate Observatorium,” “The Wandwaver Solution” (includes appendices), and “Mentomology.” See also, “Essays on Complexity: A Prospectus,” “Essays on Complexity 1988-1994” and “Essays on Complexity 1997 (Mid-Year Edition).”



This was a tape-bound manual containing seven papers, with 6 of them having been published during 1995-1996. All of them have been previously printed and distributed as separate papers, but were collected in 1997 and combined into a single volume. The manuscript has been indexed and paged for double-sided printing, but does not contain the BACK COVER PAGE which Warfield usually adds when printing copies. These papers are Part 2 of a 3-Part manuscript collection. Only GMU has a hard copy of the 1995-1996 Volume. Our tape bound manuals with this title have all been given away The manual was scanned by GMU Libraries and placed in Warfield Digital Collection where it can be downloaded as a PDF File named Waressays_2.pdf.

CONTENTS OF ESSAYS ON COMPLEXITY PART 2 Contents of 1995-1996 volume: Front cover page, displaying table of contents for the volume Figures & Tables listing, on pages 1 & 2 1) Spreadthink Explaining Ineffective Groups 2) Demands of Complexity on Systems Science 3) Structural Thinking: Organizing Complexity…by Warfield & Staley 4) Five Schools of Thought About Complexity 5) The Corporate Observatorium 6) The Wandwaver Solution (A number of bulky appendices in John's original Wandwaver report have not been included in this compendium volume) 7) Mentomology INDEX begins on page 111. This 1995-1996 volume eventually became Part 2 of the composite collection which John printed later in the year, and which he titled simply: Essays on Complexity, Reviewer's copy. R.w. updated 18 April 2015


Additional Info

  • Category: Complexity, Professional History, Research History
  • Size: 107 p
  • Description: Transparencies (cellpack)
  • Album Name: Bertalanffy Lectures
  • Publication Year: 1998
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