Five Abstracts written in preparation for seminar talks during academic year 1986-1987.   Warfield's "Influence Seminars"  continued for two years 1986-1988, but many of the records were lost and we have only these 5  abstracts for which there are no videotapes and a separate set of 7 videotapes for which there are no documents. Warfield described these lectures as being "[a]imed at identifying semi-forgotten influences from the past on our present ways of thinking and acting.”  Dates and titles of the 5  Abstracts  are given below..   

Argues that certain banking interests are acting on self-interest along and manipulating the price of gold in attempt to keep it as low as possible. In turn, this manipulation results in the impoverishing of gold producing nations in Africa. Information from the Gold Anti-trust Action Committee (GATA), a coalition of gold producers working to stop the manipulation, is the basis for the article.

Unfinished critique of modern educational practices in general and the university system in particular. Sees many of the problems stemming from communication problems and poor infrastructure. See also companion piece “Precepts of Good Education/Management: How Good Practice is Violated.”

A good way to get an idea of what takes place during an Interactive Management workshop. It is an index composed by Rose Warfield for videotapes from first Ford Interactive Management workshop, held 14-16 April 1992. Keyed to the time codes printed on the videotape, the index lists many of the activities of the session, such as NGT and ISM, and also a few paragraphs describing what is happening. The names of all the participants are included, as well as the date, place, sponsors, and facilitators. See “First Interactive Management Workshop on Design of Analytical Powertrain, April 14-16 1991” Tape 1, Tape 2, Tape 3, Tape 4, Tape 5, Tape 6, Tape 7, Tape 8, Tape 9, and Tape 10.

Instructions on how to prepare another slow-speed copy from the original ten cassettes. The instructions give legends for the title pages, and time codes for stopping and starting the slow-speed copy to make it correspond to the printed “Index to Slow Speed Videotapes.”

George Friedman introduced a significant contribution to the field of mathematical modeling with his "Constraint Theory." In 1995, Warfield wrote an index for Friedman's 1967 dissertation, in an effort to assist graduate students and others in understanding Constraint Theory, and in bringing Friedman's fundamental ideas into wider use. The 29 page index is topical, and lists 686 terms as used by Friedman in the dissertation.

Mathematics of Modeling began as a syllabus for Warfield’s first Mathematics of Modeling short course, taught in Monterrey, Mexico in July 1992.

Pages 34-41 of Warfield’s unpublished report titled "Institutional Mechanics and the Great University." See also, “The Wandwaver Solution: Creating the Great University.”

A study of policymaking, and human behavior as it relates to the process.

A one-page contents list and nothing more, lists a few titles and references, etc.