Managing Insight

An incomplete paper that argues that individual executives lack exceptional insight into the complexity in the situations for which they exercise oversight. As a result, they do not deserve the exorbitant levels of compensation currently provided. Asserts that insight management is a topic demanding highly-selective group process activity, as opposed to executive command performance. See also, “Insight Management.”



This unfinished paper corresponds to the same time frame as an unpublished article titled "Insight Management" but the two papers are not the same, although they use similar elements and even similar text passages. It might possibly have been Warfield's preliminary try at writing a paper to submit to IJITM (International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management) in Singapore, since the acronym "IJITM" is typed at the top of page 1, above the title. Here is an excerpt from ABSTRACT: "… Is there some rare principal attribute that the executives in question were thought to own that presumably justified massive income allocations to them? If ownership of such a principal attribute were chosen as the basis for such massive incomes, were those attributes likely to have been present, or more likely to have been fictional?" It seems likely that these executives may have been able to convince others that they had exceptional insight into the complexity in the situations for which they exercised oversight. Nonetheless, research into human behavior and complexity has demonstrated clearly that individual executives are almost certainly lacking in the insight claimed; consequently should not receive massive rewards for an attribute they do not possess. Research clearly demonstrates that insight management is a topic demanding highly-selective group process activity, as opposed to executive command performance." There is one figure included in this unfinished paper, but it has the caption "Figure 3" indicating that a Figure 1 and Figure 2 must have existed, but they are no longer here. "Figure 3. The Management Cellular Square" is the full title of the single figure. Accompanying the paper, but not described, referenced nor page numbered, are two tables which are same as two tables in "Insight Management."

Table 1: The Warfield Sextet

Table 2: Complexity Items and Codes.

This is a really incomplete paper, needs work.

R.w. 28 Aug 2012.




Additional Info

  • Category: Complexity, Group Processes, Organizations, Research History
  • Size: 105 p
  • Description: Transparency
  • Publication Year: 2010
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