Start Here: Axion (Working paper v1.0)
A formal reference for the Axion diagnostic model used across the essays.
What it helps you see: misplaced complexity, broken correction loops, legitimacy conflicts.
Status: active working paper (updated as the model is formalised).
Cite / archive: Zenodo DOI — (your existing link)
If you want a fast diagnostic read on your organisation, start with the 5-essay reading order on the right.
Archive: Zenodo DOI — https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18073324
This paper provides the formal reference point for the Axion model discussed throughout the site and related essays.
Field Guides & Applied Material (in development)
Practical diagnostic guides translating Axion into decision-making and intervention design.
Razor Diagnostic (2–3 weeks): locate misplaced load + correction loop failures
Confusion Tax Estimate (workshop): quantify cost of incoherence
Run/Serve/Change Boundary Map (exec working session)
Axion: A Structural Index for Organisational Coherence
Coherence is not culture. It’s a structural property — and when it breaks, you pay for it in latency, rework, risk exposure, and decision theatre.
Axion helps you diagnose
where complexity is being carried (often in shadow structure / wrong-level roles)
how variance is actually resolved (local-correction vs escalation)
where boundaries and legitimacy break, creating friction and “rational resistance”
Start with the pathway that matches your problem.
Read these 5 first
Choose your starting point
A) Complexity in the wrong place (Physics / responsibility domains)
If delivery is slow and coordination is heavy, you likely have complexity sitting in the wrong responsibility domains.
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B) Escalation loops and theatre (Regulatory grammar)
If decisions crawl upward and exceptions dominate, your correction loops are broken.
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C) Hidden cost and rework (Confusion Tax)
If you can feel the waste but can’t quantify it, start here.
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D) “Difficult people” (Role responses to incoherence)
If you’ve got blockers, irony, compliance theatre, or quiet sabotage, assume structural causality first.
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Essay Index in Chronological Order