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IASIS Today
Written as material to be used for a TIPP brochure. It is divided into five section: Goals, Products, Current Student Projects, Organizational Change Projects and Contact Information. Includes information on books and books in progress, bibliographies of research materials, catalog of reports available for purchase, statement dollar amount of outside research contracts, list of current student’s work, names of persons and organizations using Interactive Management, and a description of some of Warfield’s papers and his Short Courses available to the public.
IASIS Short Courses Available to Sponsors
Provides information on one-week short courses which Warfield developed. He describes them as "concentrated educational experiences relating to complexity." They are designed for high intensity full-day saturation training, a method which Warfield believes to be a preferable learning situation for this type of education. There are eight different short courses, which are of a more or less consecutive nature. Their titles: 1) Complexity and Drummers 2) Demands Imposed on Research and Writing by Complexity 3) Generic Design 4) Interactive Management 5) Mathematics of Modeling 6) Structural Graphics 7) Structural Thinking and Interactive Management 8) Structural Thinking: Producing Effective Organizational Change.
IASIS Newsletters, 1999
Warfield wrote the first IASIS newsletter on 14 or 15 January 1999, and sent as a group response to frequently asked questions. He continued to write them throughout the 1999 Spring Semester and produced a total of four.
IASIS Documents Available to Colleagues
List of 14 of Warfield’s unpublished reports sent to TIPP faculty members at GMU. Offers up to three complementary copies to readers.
IASIS Catalog: Items That can be Purchased, Prices, and Ordering Information
A list of much of Warfield’s research and study along with sources for obtaining them. Includes articles, short courses, a software package, presentation packages, books and reports.
IASIS Annual Report for 1989 (pages 1 - 26 only)
A description of what the Center for Interactive Management was designed to do, and what it accomplished before closing in January 1990. Includes description of Warfield's work at the Institute a list of his publications and note his educational activities both in the U.S. and in foreign countries. One of the appendices, Appendix B, titled "John Warfield's Work and Related Topics" is a good bibliography from beginning of his career through 1989.
IASIS Abstracts: Part 2, Presentation Packages and Short Courses Available to Sponsors
Chronologically arranged, contains information on 18 transparencies used either in lectures or as handouts to audiences. In addition there is descriptive material for eight Short Courses taught by Warfield or proposed by him. For a list of the titles, see notes field. For a list of the reports, see “IASIS Abstracts: Part 1, Reports.”
IASIS Abstracts: Part 1, Reports
A good way to get a quick overview of many of Warfield’s papers written between 1982 and 1996. Titles are listed chronologically, with summaries of each article in Warfield’s own words. Sometimes includes an abstract, a brief foreword, or a table of contents. Often the material in these IASIS reports or monographs would be used in subsequent books or articles. For a list of the titles, see notes field. See also, “IASIS Abstracts: Part 2, Presentation Packages and Short Courses Available to Sponsors.”
Title Pages or Covers
Titles intended for the cover pages of his reports or workshop manuals that Warfield was working on during the 1990's.
Humanitarian Intervention: Pros and Cons
Questions the competence and effectiveness of global governance by conference attendees whose qualifications seem to include "unmatched hubris" and little else