This 78 page manuscript is the first seven chapters of Warfield's new book in progress, the only part completed at this writing (22 June2004). He had said Understanding Complexity would be his last book, but now he has decided there is a need for this book, which is written in simpler language at a level to be understood by the average lay person. He is hoping to enlarge the readership of his ideas having found that people are not reading Understanding Complexity. He has given this YELLOW SPIRAL BOUND BOOKLET TITLED PART 1, REVIEW COPY to Roxana Cardenas, Tom Gulledge, David Gray, as of June 2004. Although there are only 7 full chapters In the Yellow spiral bound booklet, the complete book is outlined and most of the chapters have been given titles. This book outline as of June 2004, with chapter titles is given below:
PART 1 FOUNDATIONS: Chapter 1 Doubt and Concern; Chapter 2 The Human Being: Creative and Fallible; Chapter 3 Language; Chapter 4 Second-Order Thought: The Stuff Reason is Made of; Chapter 5 The Thought Explorers; Chapter 6 Quality Control in Structural Modeling; Chapter 7, The Situation Room. PART 2 DISCOVERY: Chapter 8 Describing a Problematic Situation; Chapter 9 Metrics of Complexity; Chapter 10 Diagnosing. PART 3 RESOLUTION: Chapter 11 System Design; Chapter 12 Choosing from the Alternatives; Chapter 13 Implementing the Design; Chapter 14 Constructing the Observatorium. PART 4 THE PRACTICE: Chapter 15 Actors in the Private Sector [Ernzen, Haruna, Jiangping, Rodriguez, Staley]; Chapter 16 Actors in Government [Alberts, Ayiku, Batra, Trevino]; Chapter 17 Actors in the Social Arena [Broome, Christakis, Jeffrey, Moreno, Smith]; Chapter 18 Actors in Education [Broome, Caffarel, Cardenas, Janes, Song, Temblador]. PART 5 SYSTEMS SCIENCE: NO CHAPTERS LISTED HERE, AT LEAST IN THE YELLOW BOOKLET Warfield has so many different variations of this book manuscript that I can't locate the exact file he used for this YELLOW BOOKLET. R.w. Sept 2004.
NOTE: On John’s computer, this 2004newbook FILE FOLDER has become OUTDATED and is now useful only for historical study of a half-finished book manuscript. This outdated folder 2004newbook has been superceded by another computer folder NEWBOOK2(12-23-2004), which John added to his computer on December 23, 2004, rendering 2004NewBook obsolete.
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