"What Should the Leader/Executive Know in Order to Overcome Complexity in the Organization? A Pictorial View"

Printouts of 20 PowerPoint slides and correspondence related to talk. It was a talk on overcoming complexity in organizations and prepared for 2 July 2003 presentation at INCOSE 13th Annual International Symposium Washington, D.C. Due to last minute schedule changes, the talk was never given.

Sent to GMU 27 September 2007 This TALK WAS NEVER GIVEN. The file folder contains printouts of 20 PowerPoint slides, plus Warfield's correspondence with friends and colleagues who had been asked to review his talk while in preparation stages. He prepared it completely and had it ready for presentation on 2 May 2003 which is the date I am giving to the manuscript copy. Months earlier he had given a talk on his views of complexity, in February 2003 at an INCOSE meeting in Tampa, Florida. He spoke with a very interested audience for well over an hour. He was asked at that time to make a talk in Washington at the July INCOSE symposium to present his ideas. Hoping to find a wider audience for his work, Warfield spent quite a bit of effort getting the talk formalized in PowerPoint. But alas, it turns out that in Washington D.C. the word "symposium" means the same as it means to the Chinese, in that several extra speakers were added to Warfield's presentation time, a time that he had been led to believe would be about an hour. SO HE CANCELLED. (As he commented several years later at age 81, when I asked him about this PowerPoint file: "They tried to get me to do a talk on complexity at that INCOSE Washington meeting but said I had only 10 minutes. You can't discuss that subject in ten minutes.)




Additional Info

  • Category: Complexity, Correspondence and Communications, Organizations, Solutions or Improvements for Complex Situations
  • Size: 19 slides
  • Description: Manuscript, typewritten
  • Publication Year: 2004
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