| Q1 | Professor Bales, what role has art played in your career?
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| C1a | Relationship of SYMLOG to color theory
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| C1b | Ways that values, like colors, can harmonize or clash
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| Q2 | What are you thinking about when you are painting?
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| C2a | Exploring field theory and the “field effect”
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| Q3 | Is SYMLOG related to music in your mind as well as to art?
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| Q4 | How is SYMLOG related to “describing the context” and “systems thinking”? |
| C4a | SYMLOG is a theory of what is most relevant in social interaction. |
| C4b | “Systems thinking” vs. “rat in a maze” approach to psychology |
| C4c | SYMLOG as a diagnostic system—data collection, data handback, and group discussion |
| Q5 | What is the relationship between conflict and values? |
| C5a | Conflicting motives are built into personalities. |
| C5b | Conflict is inevitable in any personality and any social interaction system. |
| C5c | Leadership and the resolution of conflict |
| Q6 | Is SYMLOG relevant to, and effective in, the real world? |
| C6a | The early days of research—building a system for observing groups. |
| C6b | Out of the laboratory—developing SYMLOG Consulting Group |
| Q7 | How valuable is your old accumulated data to these conclusions? |
| Q8 | Is SYMLOG really worth paying for? Can it really help an organization or team leader? |
| C8a | The Unabomber case. The sociology of survival. |
| C8b | SYMLOG and studies regarding individual and organizational effectiveness
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| C8c | SYMLOG and Organizational Development
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| Q9 | SYMLOG seems complex to some people and often doesn’t provide many easy answers. Can it be simplified? |
| C9a | An example of an approach-approach type of conflict |
| C9b | An example of an approach-avoidance (and even worse) type of conflict |
| C9c | Conflicts are complex value dilemmas we can illustrate using SYMLOG and the game of donkeys and dogs. |
| Q10 | Why do consultants ask questions on opposing concepts such as Wish and Reject? L |
| Q11 | How does SYMLOG simplify understanding something as complex as social interaction? |
| Q12 | What simplifications have been specifically produced and refined by SYMLOG?
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| Q13 | What is this Forward-Backward Dimension? How was it named? |
| Q14 | What is authority? How does authority relate to the Forward-Backward Dimension?
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| C14a | Legitimate authority is in the eyes of the beholder
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| C14b | Leadership always involves dealing with groups of people who have different values.
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| Q15 | Is there a difficulty with the naming of the directions in the SYMLOG space?
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| Q16 | Validity and reliability are always issues. Is SYMLOG reliable?
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| C16a | Most people experience SYMLOG as valid—this is not necessarily always positive, so be careful.
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| Q17 | What is the optimum guide for changing your personal behavior—the SYMLOG E-line or what co-workers feel would be ideal?
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| Q18 | Why do some items seem so similar to some of the other items when filling out the rating form?
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| Q19 | Why do some of the words in some of the items seem to conflict with other words in the very same item?
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| Q20 | How would you convince someone to make SYMLOG ratings?
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| Q21 | How is SYMLOG different from other instruments? |
| Q22 | How can your data relate to a client’s special and unique problems?
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| Q23 | The client may ask: “How is our company profile different from others?”
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| Q24 | When is the best time to bring SYMLOG into an organization?
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| Q25 | How well does a team need to know each other in order to make the ratings meaningful?
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| Q26 | Are you able to use repeated measures to assess change?
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| Q27 | How often should repeated measures be done?
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| Q28 | What is meant by "multiple levels" when referring to SYMLOG?
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| Q29 | Is SYMLOG a theory of personality? Group dynamics? Society? Ideology? |
| Q30 | What are the discoveries and contributions of SYMLOG that are really new and truly important? |
| Q31 | Where is SYMLOG headed? |
| Q32
| How are you feeling now that SYMLOG is being used worldwide?
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| Q33
| Is there anything we haven’t asked you that you want us to know?
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