The Shelf canon v3.4.0 · gate PASS
Release gate
✓ PASS · v3.4.0

Management as Ontology

Name it, clock it, write it, guard it, garden it.

Norman Wanto · the corpus, rendered from source · 2026

The shelf — one book per job
The Canon

The reference: every law, model, and instrument, with its epistemic stamp.for lookup and dispute · a half-hour read

v3.4.0 · 8 parts
The Casebook

MO in the wild: five real structures with their receipts, each containing a failure.for the learner who believes receipts · start here

v1 · 5 cases
The Field Card

The one-page authoring reference: mantra, catechism, fitness tests, write-lines.for the practitioner mid-authoring · print it

v1.1 · 1 page

The course instruments (lecture, workshop, exam) are not on the shelf: the course arrives live. Worked examples, domain-neutral: Lifting and the Marathon · The Marketing Campaign Register · The KYC Compliance Audit.

The map — from the unit register

The seven models

The seven instruments

The 26 laws, seven families

Laws of the nouns

Laws of the spec

Laws of the doors

Laws of the running system

Laws of enforcement

Laws of authority

Laws of the head

Downloads

The Canon v3.4.0 (PDF) · The Casebook v1 (PDF) · The Field Card v1.1 (PDF)