PUBLICATIONS

Through the Systems Management Institute Press, Dr. Newkirk has published more than 850 articles, monographs, and  books exploring a wide range of topics including Leadership Mastery, Methodology Design, Systems Management, Systems Thinking, Philosophy, Education, Training & Development, Theology, Behavioral Science, Human Systems Design, Design Science, Human Activity Systems, UlThule™ Performance, Living Systems Process Analysis, Management Theory and Practice, Software Development, Project and Program Management. Please click on the following link to review a list of E-books currently available by Dr. Newkirk at Barnes & Noble.

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Some people refuse to read books. They prefer looking at pictures. When I ask them how they learn to master difficult topics, they tell me they don’t. If they think that reading books is difficult, they should try reading people. This is genuinely difficult because the pages of the mind change really quickly, if you get my drift. —RLN

Over the course of his career, Dr. Newkirk has published nearly 60 books. Yet he claims that he is only getting started. Currently he has 11 books in book stores around the world including Barnes & Noble.

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A few have been published as Collector’s Editions. Several of his books have been published as foreign language editions and made available in libraries. Currently, Dr. Newkirk offers several of his books through his parent company Systems Management Institute at www.smirsp.com. The books currently available include the following:

TITLES INCLUDE

  • The Executive Support Human System as an EGS

  • Executive Support Human Systems Methodology: Human Systems Management Beyond Project Management

  • Philosophical Foundation of a Meta-Methodology for Human Systems Design Inquiry

  • Fundamentals of Requirements Analysis, (2004). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Introducing Configuration Management, (2003). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Mastering Ethnic Diversity in the Workplace for Maximum Performance, (2003). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • ULTHULE© - Achieving Performance at the Highest Level Attainable, (2003).  SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • A Conceptual Model for Building the 21st Century University, (2002). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Justifying Proposals (2001).  SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Proposing the Decision Support System, (2001). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • New Product Development for the 21st Century, (2000). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Advanced New Product Development for the 21st Century, (2000). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Beyond the Year 2000 Crisis: Vision 21 - A Model for Business Growth in the 21st Century, (1998), SMI Press, Pleasant Hill.

  • Time to Get Serious: Expanded Thinking for Executive Practice and Management Action, (1998), SMI Press, Pleasant Hill.

  • A Model Service Level Agreement for eCommerce, (1996). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • The Challenge of Shifting to an Alternative Paradigm.

  • A Personal Statement on My Preferred Approach to Social Science Inquiry.

  • Personal Response to an Approach of Inquiry Antithetical to My Own.

  • The Management Effectivity Analysis.

  • A Research Proposal for the Redesign of the Software Quality & Control Group.

TITLES INCLUDE

  • Preparing the Request-for-Proposal, (1995). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • The Deductions Business Model for the Food Industry, (1995). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Guidelines for the Control and Audit of Electronic Commerce Agreements, (1995). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Technology Model of Enterprise Under ECR, (1994).  SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • ECR Marketing and Sales Handbook, (1994). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Navigating the Successful Proposal Process, (1994). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Establishing the New Product Development Process, (1993). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA..

  • Building the Successful Charter, (1992). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • Establishing the Executive Agenda, (1991). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • "Cybernetics, Living Systems Theory, and Organizational Behavior," Proceeding of the International Congress on Cybernetics, (1990) Namur, Belgium

  • Successfully Initiating Projects, (1989).  SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.

  • "Taking Charge, Humanizing Management," Computerworld, Nov. 16. 1988

  • "Human Resource Factors for the Management of the IS Function," Journal of the Philippine Computer Society, Winter 1985, Manila, Philippine Islands.

  • Implementing Information Center Computing, (1985).  International Association of Information Management, Manila, P.I.

  • The Chronicles of the Making of a Philosopher, Book V, Volume 2 (1982).  Columbia Pacific University, Mill Valley, CA.

  • A Context for Scientific Research Methods in Human Inquiry as the Annihilation of Pseudoscience.

  • The Design of the Software Development Group as a Systems Issue.

  • A Research Proposal for the Redesign of the Software Development Group.

  • A Comparison of Three Methods for Disciplined Inquiry.

  • The Living Systems Approach, A New Software Design Paradigm for the 21st Century and Beyond.

TITLES INCLUDE

  • The Chronicles of the Making of A Philosopher, Book V, Volume 1 (1981).  Columbia Pacific University, Mill Valley, CA.

  • The Chronicles of the Making of a Philosopher, Book II, What is Philosophy (1980).  Columbia Pacific University, Mill Valley, CA.

  • The Chronicles of the Making of a Philosopher, Book III, Theodicy (1980).  Raymond L. Newkirk, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

  • Approach for the Design of the Software Development Human Activity System.

  • Design Inquiry - A Summary.

  • A Review of the Traditional Approach ro Computer Software Development - An Ideology Critique.

  • The Creativity Myth.

  • The Application of Living Systems Theory to Computer Software Development..

  • Creativity as Design.

  • Design Evaluation & Measurement through Living Systems Theory as an Approach to Creativity Measurement.

  • Some Distinctions between a Systems Approach and Other Methods of Disciplined Inquiry.

  • A Systems Description Outline.

  • The Observer Defined the System.

  • Reflections on Emergence and Holism.

  • A Description of the Software Development Human Activity System.

  • Three Alternative Root Definitions of the Computer Software Development Human Activity System.

  • A Deductive Process Model of the Computer Software Development Human Activity System.

  • A Conceptual Model of the Problem Situation Existing in the Software Development HAS.

  • A Project Proposal for the Design of a Computer Software Development Human Activity System.

  • Systems Design.Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point.

TITLES INCLUDE

  • Systems Design, Models Selection.

  • Design Proposal.

  • A Statement Concerning My Current Approach to Consulting.

  • A Critique of Current Assumptions Associated with Personality Assessment.

  • Personality Assessment through Systematic Observation in the Natural Setting.

  • Personality Assessment within Business Organizations.

  • The Executive Support System as an Evolutionary Guidance System.

  • An LSPA Description of the Computer Software Development Human Activity System.

  • An Instrument for Monitoring and Tracking the Flow of the Requirements Definition Information Process of the Computer Software Development Human Activity System Using Living Systems Process Analysis.

  • A Plan for a Living Systems Process Analysis of the Computer Software Development Human Activity System Design Subsystem - The Ingestor, Decoder, and Encoder Subsystems.

  • An Inquiry into the Definition of Science - What is Science?

  • An Inquiry into the Scientific Method: Is it Really Science?

  • An Inquiry into Empirical Science: An Inadequate Theory and Inappropriate Methodology for the Disciplined Study of Human Experience.

  • Shifting to an Alternative Paradigm.

  • What is Human Science?

  • An Inquiry into a Definition of ideology.

  • The Challenge of Hermeneutics - An Apologia.

  • Stevick Revisited - An ideology Critique.

  • Dissertation Speculations and Critical Theory.

  • A Systems Models Description of a Software Development System.

TITLES INCLUDE

  • A Review of the Systems Paradigm.

  • The Nature and Characteristics of Human Activity Systems in General and the Computer Software Development Human Activity System in Particular.

  • Speculations about Methods or Approaches Used to Work with the Computer Software Development Human Activity System.

  • Software Design Evaluation and Measurement - A Living Systems Process.

  • Philosophical Foundation of a Metamethodology for Design Inquiry in Software Development Human Activity Systems.

  • An Emerging Redesign of the Computer Software Development Human Activity System Using Living Systems Theory Guided by the Systems Models Approach..

  • Design Operations and Tasks Leading to the Redesign of the Computer Software Development Human Activity System.

  • The Design System Supporting the Redesign of the Computer Software Development Human Activity System.

  • Developmental Objectives and Plans Supporting the Redesign of the Computer Software Development Human Activity System.

  • A Description of the Evolutionary Guidance System Dimensions Designed to Guide the Systems Management Institute into the Future.

  • The Rational Theology of Harnack, Troeltsch, & Schleiermacher

  • The Evolution of the Human Spirit

  • The American Church in the 21st Century

  • Reflections of Historical Theology

  • An Analysis of Richardsons’s History of the Sacred and Profane.

  • Carnap’s Concept of Intensional Isomorphism.

  • Historical Objectivism versus Historical Relativism or Acton Versus Becker.

  • Modern Theology and the Syncresis of St. Thomas.

  • Tumultuous Times - The Information Explosion, & Hyper-Specialization in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Describing Pastoral Counseling Using Design Inquiry.

TITLES INCLUDE

  • A Meta-Description of Pastoral Counseling.

  • Disciplines of Pastoral Counseling.

  • Modern Changes Affecting Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Emerging Conceptual Framework of Pastoral Counseling.

  • Cybernetic Epistemology of Pastoral Counseling.

  • Pastoral Counseling and Reciprocal Determinism.

  • Pastoral Counseling as Science: Path to a Human Science Design.

  • Principle of Co-Evolution in Pastoral Counseling.

  • The SocioCybernetics of Pastoral Counseling.

  • Challenges of the Emerging Global Framework of Pastoral Counseling.

  • Misuse of Assessment in Past Years.

  • Science and Meaning in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Challenge of Naturalism in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Challenge of Realism in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Challenge of Autonomy in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Challenge of Explanation in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Governmental Legislation Impacting Pastoral Counseling in California.

  • Litigation and the Pastoral Counselor.

  • Social Action in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Diversity and Multiculturalism in Pastoral Counseling.

TITLES INCLUDE

  • A Retrospective on Pastoral Counseling.

  • Methodological Trends in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Pastoral Counseling and Trends in Globalization.

  • The Problem of Bias and Prejudice in a Holistic Approach to Pastoral Counseling.

  • Competence and Bias in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Culturalism and Bias in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Ethics and Bias in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Testing and Assessment and Bias in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Roots of Developmental Psychology Relevant to Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Influence of John Locke & Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Philosophical Inheritance of Pastoral Counseling.

  • Scientific Approaches Relevant to a Holistic Pastoral Counseling.

  • Definition of Science as a Framework for Engaging in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Path to a Human Science Definition in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Developmental Stage Theory in Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Defining Characteristics of Stage Theory in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Major Theories of Developmental Psychology Impacting Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Influence of Arnold Gessell (1880-1961) on Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Influence of Maria Montessori (1870-1952) on Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Influence of Jean Piaget (1896-1980) on Pastoral Counseling.

TITLES INCLUDE

  • The Influence of Lawrence Kohlberg (1927-1987) on Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Influence of Erik Erikson (1902-1994) on Pastoral Counseling.

  • Stage Theory & Pastoral Counseling in 21st Century Western Thought.

  • Kohlberg’s Moral Developmental Stage Theory as a Moral Framework in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Kohlberg’s Preconventional Morality in Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Relevance of Kohlberg’s Obedience and Punishment Orientation in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Individualism, & Instrumental Purpose and Exchange in Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Impact of Conventionality Morality on Pastoral Counseling.

  • Mutual Expectations, Relationships, Conformity.

  • Social Systems and Conscience.

  • Post-Conventional Morality.

  • The Social Contract Orientation Implied in During Pastoral Counseling.

  • Universal Ethical Principles Orientation in Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Historical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Factors Shaping Pastoral Counseling.

  • Vygotsky (1896-1934) & Historical, Socioeconomic, & Cultural Factors in Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Universal Constants of Human Development within Pastoral Counseling.

  • Aspects of Pastoral Counseling Most Likely Determined by Cultural Factors.

  • Child Gender-Typing and Acculturation in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Cultural Models and Pastoral Counseling.

  • Genetics, Culture, and Pastoral Counseling.Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point.

TITLES INCLUDED

  • Societal Trends & Changes Influencing the Next Wave of Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Problem of Conceptual Proliferation in Pastoral Counseling.

  • Historical Evolution and Globalization of Pastoral Counseling.

  • Towards a Socio-Cybernetic Epistemology of Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Socio-Cybernetic Paradox of Pastoral Counseling.

  • The Socio-Cybernetics of Pastoral Counseling

  • New Insights and Models for Learning Theorists.

  • Clinical Psychology.

  • Advanced Psychological Assessment

  • Spiritual Trends in Community Psychology.

  • On Group Psychotherapy.

  • The Systems Models Approach as a Framework for Engaging in Multi-Theoretical Psychotherapy Informed by Social Psychology.

  • The Systems Models Approach as a Framework for Engaging in Eclectic and Multi-Theoretical Psychotherapy as a Human Activity System.

  • Internet Inculturation towards Integral and Radical Competence in a Virtual Learning Context, with Particular Reference to Bay University - A Case Study.

  • A Critical Analysis of the Problem of Multiplicity in the Internal Family Systems Therapy of Richard C. Schwartz.

  • A Human Activity Systems Framework for Engaging in Re-Decision Psychotherapy

  • Developmental Psychology and the Nourishment of the Human Spirit

  • Human Sexuality, a Deeper Gift of Human Spirituality

  • Psychopathology, the Confusion of Human Spirituality

TITLES INCLUDED

  • Genetics, Culture, and Pastoral Counseling

  • Spirituality in Theories of Marriage, Family, & Child Counseling

  • Professional Ethics & The Law in Spiritual Healing the Human Spirit

  • Psychological Assessment and the Violation of the Human Spirit

  • The Philosophy of Biology.

  • The Descent of Man.

  • The Effects of the Media on Human Judgment.

  • The Use of Manova in Academic Research.

  • The Philosophically Developed Process in Organization Development.

  • Faith in Philosophy.

  • Some Limits in Human Reasoning.

  • Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point.Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point.

Imagine that you are in this forest looking up at the stars. It is a really brilliant sky isn’t it? How much satisfaction you are able to get something from this experience depends upon your authentic sense of self and your depth of connecting with the wonder of it all. Some people tell me joyfully that they feel the same way and profoundly lose themselves in such experiences. Other people tell me impatiently that I am nuts because it is such a terrible place with little to no beauty at all. Who do you think is correct? What does this tell you about yourself? Everything teaches us something about ourselves if we are open to such instruction. The Cosmos is a great coach. —RLN