Word: rigidness
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Giants begin to falter when their managers, swollen with arrogance and complacency, allow themselves to lose touch with their customers. This happens most often at firms that maintain a rigid, top-down management style. "Big companies find that the challenges of keeping up with what's going on in the marketplace become infinitely greater as the companies get larger," says Walter Scott, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. "The layers of management and perks isolate executives too much...
...tell the truth, they seem to revel in the uncertainty. In the 19th century, Nikolai Gogol depicted Russia in his novel Dead Souls as a wildly careering troika rushing into the unknown. Now, after seven decades of forced efforts to mold the Russian mind to fit rigid communist orthodoxy, people have taken to the road again with such an exhilarating clatter of hooves that it sometimes seems as if the destination means nothing, movement is everything...
...kissed and shown affection is less likely to demand attention by resorting to self-destructive behavior. But the tabloid press, always searching for subtext, heard the princess's remarks as a personal statement about her childhood, scarred by her parents' broken marriage, and her own marriage, marred by the rigid, distinctly unhuggy codes of royal behavior...
...think this is a great compromise betweengiving students more choice and not creating asystem where the stereotypes are so rigid,"Kalkanis said. "Hopefully we can maintaindiversity, while giving students more choice...
Film-maker Marlon Riggs' and writer Ron Simmons' contribution, entitled "Sexuality, Television and Death: A Black Gay Dialogue on Malcolm X" draws similarly surprising conclusions from Malcolm's ideas. In a subtle discussion, Riggs' and Simmons' pride in Malcolm is tempered by a disappointment in his celebration of a rigid definition of Black manhood. They criticize the ways in which his critique of racism remained rooted in repressive, conventional views on gender and sexuality. They speak of him as both a burden and an inspiration...