A typed transcript of a telephone interview conducted by David Houpt for the Oral History Program at Special Collections & Archives George Mason University Libraries.

A set of transparencies created to accompany Warfield talk “Some Magnificent Academic Trusels and Their Social Consequences,” presented at 1992 Annual Meeting of the Association for Integrative Studies, 19-22 November 1992, Pomona, California.

An abstract of a presentation titled “Seven Ways to Portray Complexity” which was presented for the George Washington University Notational Engineering Laboratory Seminar on 28 February 1996.

Comparison of Japanese management and manufacturing methods with Warfield’s Interactive Management (IM) process that concludes that, despite the recent success of the Japanese management tools, Warfield’s IM process is superior. For further detail, see “"Chapter 14: Comparing IM With Methods Widely Used in Japan."

A manuscript version of chapter 14 of the Handbook of Interactive Management by Warfield & Roxana Cardenas. Warfield frequently used this for workshops and lectures. The chapter compares Japanese management and manufacturing methods with Warfield’s Interactive Management (IM) process and concludes that, despite the recent success of the Japanese management tools, Warfield’s IM process is superior. The chapter is an edited version of the technical report "Development of End-User Access Tools to the Science of Design: A Final Report to the Ford Motor Company Laboratories, January 1992." See notes for other related items.

A short essay likely designed to accompany a picture collection. Includes images of Aristotle and Aberlard, as well as a description of their intellectual contribution.

A proposal submitted to the Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation. Warfield offers to teach a one-week short course on complexity. Proposal includes definition of the word “problematique” and its potential value in the field of economics. Short biographical letter attached.

PowerPoint slides to accompany a guest lecture in a Systems Design class taught by Dr. Antonio Rios. John Warfield presented the lecture by Picture Tel from Tampa, Florida to the class on the ITESM campus in Chihuahua, Mexico, 29 October 2001. For the video of this lecture see “Diseno y Practica de Sistemas” and for the transcript see “Managing the Unmanageable: Historical Overview, 33 Years of Research Described in 30 Minutes.”

A collection of short papers for George Klir’s International Journal of General Systems. Some of the papers are complete while others are only drafts. See notes field for further details.

Unfinished manuscript with handwritten edits. As part of his campaign to reform higher education using the tools of Systems Science, Warfield proposes a series of three papers: the first would directed to the negatives of the current state of higher education, the second would be directed to the positives, and the third would integrate both the positive and negatives as a way of creating a program of action. Printouts of the PowerPoint presentation “Foucault’s Space of Discourse” are attached.