See also Warfield's June 1993 paper "Clanthink" which was a forerunner of this document. We also have in the file a copy of the August 1993 term paper written by Carol under Warfield's supervision, for GMU course #798. Carol's first paper was titled "Processes Government Uses Are a Product of Extended Groupthink." Her paper was expanded and printed as an IASIS report with Warfield as joint author, under the new "Groupthink, Clanthink, Spreadthink and Linkthink" title. ANNOTATION for this report: With discussions of the Bay of Pigs case, the case of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Ford Motor Company case, the U.S. Nuclear Energy case, the case of U.S. automotive industry's Rapid Response Manufacturing Consortium, and the John Deere pump manufacturing case, examples from both government and industry are used to illustrate 4 aspects of organizational decision-making. By identifying all four of these aspects, comparing them with each other, and showing illustrative examples, it is hoped to diminish the bad practices that go on in organizations. As will be indicated, three of these four aspects (groupthink, clanthink, and spreadthink) are cautionary, asking high-level managers to understand and become more selective in dealing with what is involved in group judgments in organizations. The presentation of the other aspect (linkthink) is prescriptive. Although it is founded on limited evidence of good results, it is hoped that a strong enough case is made for this fourth aspect to gain the attention of conscientious managers.

The first printing of Groupthink, Clanthink… was December 1993. Warfield distributed this report to many of his colleagues, including sending copies to TIPP for Kingsley Haynes to read, but it was never used as a TIPP monograph, as far as I know. The report was reprinted several times for distribution from IASIS EITHER IN MAILINGS OR IN CLASS OR WORKSHOP LECTURES (2nd printing February 1994, 3rd printing April 1994, 4th printing December 1994, 5th printing July 1995, 6th printing Dec. 1995.) There are three figure pages which must be printed separately and inserted into the manuscript: Figure 1, on page 37, is: "RRM Problematique showing Problem Numbers, Activity Scores, and Influence Scores", Figure2, on page 38, is cai31. "RRM Problematique Image, with voting records shown and with highest-Influence Problems shaded." Figure 3, on page 44 Deerpump.idw "Problematique for John Deere pump problem.

This paper is one of the seven titles which John assembled into a single tape-bound IASIS monograph under the title "Pre-1995 Essays on Complexity", which he had printed in July 1997, and it also appears in his three-part larger monograph titled simply "Essays on Complexity" printed in August 1997, and is the version on John's computer in filename caw009. Also a master of the report was sent to Mr. David Barr with permission for him to copy and distribute, if he paid a small royalty to C. Tiegen for each copy made.