Variety Dynamics Axioms

AXIOM 1     Foundational Axiom of Variety and Control

AXIOM 2     Variety Generation as Power Transfer Mechanism

AXIOM 3     Hierarchical Stable Location of Subsystems

AXIOM 4     Sub-system Variety Change and Power Transfer

AXIOM 5     Variety control linked to transaction costs

AXIOM 6     Variety Generation and Dynamic Behavior

AXIOM 7     Variety Generation and Control Mechanisms

AXIOM 8     Systems Incapable of Variety Generation

AXIOM 9     Variety definition

AXIOM 10   Control via feedback loops

AXIOM 11   Variety, structure hegemony, and distributions of benefits and costs

AXIOM 12   Variety, stability and topology

AXIOM 13   Control shortfall leading to transfer of ownership of control

AXIOM 14   Time is a dimension of variety in the distribution and locus of power

AXIOM 15   Variety Dynamics, reversibility and open boundaries

AXIOM 16   Variety dynamics and Nyquist number

AXIOM 17   Variety dynamics and system control

AXIOM 18   Control strategies to manage problematic subsystems

Axiom 19    Service systems variety and design

AXIOM 20   Feedback loops result in dynamic systems

AXIOM 21   Feedback loops and types of control systems

AXIOM 22   Control of systems without feedback loops and system boundary issue 

AXIOM 23   System feedback loops increase control variety

AXIOM 24   Variety Dynamics Human Bodies and Medical Practice

AXIOM 25   Variety dynamic systems are information systems

AXIOM 26   Variety dynamic systems are information systems are thermodynamic systems

AXIOM 27   Power and variety are interchangeable resources

AXIOM 28   All variety dynamic systems are physical systems

AXIOM 29   Variety dynamics can be open systems

AXIOM 30   Variety dynamic systems and conservation of energy

AXIOM 31   Variety dynamic systems and reversibility

AXIOM 32   Variety dynamics and counterfactual and constructor theories

AXIOM 33   Power flows between HQs and departments from variety management

AXIOM 34   Power acquisition via variety and transaction costs

AXIOM 35   Transaction costs related to scale and distribution of varieties

AXIOM 36   Transaction costs increase exponentially

AXIOM 37 Competition Increases Transaction Costs

AXIOM 38 Calculability of optimal variety for power and control

AXIOM 39 Control effects and benefits from variety follow power law distribution

AXIOM 40 Variety Dynamics and Power Laws

AXIOM 41 Making Invisible Control Visible across the Two-Feedback Loop Boundary

AXIOM 42 Variety-Based Resistance to Problematic Management

AXIOM 43 Control Variety in Security Systems

AXIOM 44 Variety and Organisational Stability 

AXIOM 45 Surprise Attack – variety in interpretation (deception)

AXIOM 46  Locus of Control is Shaped by Time to Change Variety Distributions

AXIOM 47 Variety Dynamics and Fundamental Physics (Tentative)

AXIOM 48 Discontinuity and Irreversibility in Variety Dynamics

AXIOM 49 Defining Simple, Complicated, and Complex Systems

AXIOM 50 Defining Hyper-Complex Systems

AXIOM 51 Power at a Point Strategies and Strategic Dependency