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A survey of methods for group problem-solving, written to provide a "primer-introduction" to these methods, for persons unfamiliar with systematic thinking on this subject.



These are the only records to Faculty Activity Reports saved in Warfield Special Collection at GMU. I don't know which of the three locations holds this material. Box 46 Folder 6 "The Institute of Public Policy (T.I.P.P) Faculty Activity Report, Calendar Year 1997", 1997 Box 46 Folder 7 "The Institute of Public Policy (T.I.P.P) Faculty Activity Report, Calendar Year 1997", 1996 Box 78 Folder 9 Faculty Activity Report, undated

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TIPP Faculty Activity Report, 1998

A 3-ring note-binder containing documentation of work done by The Institute of Public Policy at George Mason University.

Usual formal report of required activities of The Institute of Public Policy, preceded by a paragraph lamenting GMU administration financial support for "obsolescent" programs while ignoring Warfield's contributions.

This  report is 16 pages, contains lists of Warfield's close colleagues, his publications, and a categorized list of IASIS unpublished reports distributed from his office after GMU's close of Center for Interactive Management in 1989.

Report sent to Provost listing the work done by The Institute of Public Policy.

A discussion of struggles to get funding and office space for continued development of tools to handle complexity along with a review of courses and workshops and publications and lectures overseas.

Part 2 of a draft book manuscript entitled “Complexity and Drummers.” Both sections later combined into book manuscript titled "Work Program of Complexity."

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Time Out While Change Drummers

A small compendium of three articles bound all in one cover with a short preface. An appendix contains copies of the brochures from Iowa State University Press for Warfield's two books, Handbook of Interactive Management and A Science of Generic Design. The three articles printed in the report were: 1. "Silver Anniversary: Twenty-Five Years of Research on Complexity" written 4 October 1993 2.”Spreadthink: Explaining Ineffective Groups” dated December 1994. (This article was later published in the journal Systems Research) 3. "Structural Thinking: Organizing Complexity Through Disciplined Activity" dated January 1995


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Three People and a Building

Warfield observes three different concepts of reality, held by a physicist, a mathematician and Superman.