Word: rigidness
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...When China was under the ultra-rigid control of Chairman Mao?with every adult reporting to a work unit or a nosy neighborhood committee?people could barely get away with bicycle theft. That overly restrained but safe China is now long gone. Big Brother isn't watching so carefully anymore (unless you're a political dissident) and tens of millions of Chinese are on the move, wandering to different parts of the country in search of jobs. Society is all shook up, and anonymity is now possible for the first time, especially in immigrant magnets like Wuhan...
...potential" leader at IBM and was serving a stint as an executive assistant to Gerstner's predecessor, John Akers, learning the ropes by shadowing the CEO. It was 1989, a few years before Gerstner arrived to tear apart IBM's insular culture, and Big Blue was still plagued by rigid hierarchies, endless meetings and wasteful trappings of executive life...
Less dramatic but just as stubborn is the so-called anxious cluster, including the straightforwardly named dependent personality, the socially withdrawn avoidant personality and the rigid and rule-bound obsessive-compulsive personality (a different diagnosis entirely from obsessive-compulsive disorder, an anxiety condition). The third group--actually called the odd cluster--includes the paranoid, schizotypal and schizoid personalities. Paranoid sounds like just what it is. Schizotypals and schizoids both have problems forming relationships and interpreting social cues; schizotypals may also suffer delusions. "Schizoids are lone wolves," says Clemens. "Schizotypals skate along the edge of real schizophrenia...
...problem with some Harvard students is their overly rigid personalities. They’re boringly unusual,” says Jason M. Bussey, a third-year student at Harvard Law School who works as an adviser to HSS. “Jason’s got a personality. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, but he’s serious enough to get the job done...
...soldiers. “You’ve just finished your exams, and you’re rather pudgy around the middle,” he says. “And the officers yell, ‘300 push-ups!’” Faced with a rigid command structure, Myat San says, the young men learn to obey their intimidating physical training instructors (“the gods of the island”) and to complain only on their own time...