Given to GMU 12 July 2004 -hand delivered. This tape bound booklet was prepared as a handout to accompany Warfield's seminar/talk before the Phoenix chapter of INCOSE (International Council of Systems Engineering) on December 5, 2003. The talk was given at the invitation of Jack Ring, a member of the Phoenix INCOSE chapter. Contents of the Booklet titled MANAGING THE UNMANAGEABLE; Overview and References. (The acronym MTU stands for Managing the Unmanageable, refers to Warfield's collection of Powerpoint files): MTU 2003 (1 slides) Systems Science Structure, placing Seminar components in the general picture; MTU 15 (17 slides) The Question Game, overview questions and overview responses; MTU 60 (25 slides) Middle Human Science, filling the gap between macro and micro; MTU 66 (12 slides) The Spreadthink Barrier, defining a management dilemma when faced with complexity; MTU 65 (15 slides) Empirical Evidence; the Perino Discoveries, managers and faculty at DSMC; MTU 44 (28 slides) Metrics of Complexity, Definitions, Numerical Values for Various Cases; Appendix 1 - Four Examples of Belief Structures; Appendix 2 - MTU by the numbers - a list of all Warfield's MTU PowerPoint Presentations; Appendix 3 - Organization of Presentations by Themes; Appendix 4 - Parts of the website http://www.ajarmail.com listing some links; Appendix 5 - Multi-Book Slide, Product Descriptions and Order Form for purchasing books.
Jack arranged the meeting which was held in a conference room of the Arizona Club a downtown Phoenix high-rise office building. Ben Broome was there also and helped Warfield and Jack get the seminar into operation, since Jack was totally unprepared with equipment Ben brought a projector from his own office. Ben gave a nice talk to the group as part of the day's presentation. Warfield took several copies of his new book Understanding Complexity, and also other papers for sale. Only a few were sold. Jack Ring kept the extra copies of the book for months before finally shipping back to Warfield, who needed them to confirm his publisher inventory for income tax return. This seminar talk was not particularly successful. Jack Ring had led the attendees to expect a quick-fix technology. Warfield had tried to inform Jack Ring that this one-day seminar was a preliminary explanation of the theory and history and underpinnings of his work. If the group had an interest a week-long training seminar could be offered later on. Warfield had told Jack that one full week is the absolute minimum needed to actually try and train someone in the use of INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENT. As it turned out, only one of the attendees even grasped what Warfield was talking about, the rest were unaware of the implications in his talk. ( He was Will Collins, living then in Fountain Head, AZ) Warfield sold a few books. NOTE: In September 2007 we shipped another folder of materials to Fenwick Library Special Collection some more documents, correspondence and PowerPoint slide printouts which had been connected with this Phoenix presentation. So now the Warfield Special Collection has TWO FOLDERS on this Phoenix seminar, the other is Box 91 Folder 21.
