Quoting from the Overview: "Interactive Management (IM) is often easily and prematurely misinterpreted as an extension of existing schools of management thought, decision sciences or styles conveyed or easily comprehended. For example, unfamiliar individuals interpret IM as only a restatement development field, or an alternative practice of team building methods." The article, in layman’s terms, is presenting the principles of set theory, applied to management problems. To illustrate Interactive Management, the article draws on numerous materials and graphics which had been in use in the first Center for Interactive Management at University of Virginia, such as the well known Sigma Five figure, the drawing ILLUSTRATING TWO PROBLEM SITUATIONS , the graphic INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENT SPECTRUM (Figure 1) and the page A SET OF GENERIC DESCRIPTORS OF MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS AND TWO CLASSES OF PROBLEMS. (Table 1).
