They simply failed to execute the formula that stuffs the formation, which is disciplined football, with players assigned gaps they are not supposed leave.
A Nike executive said the formula, when well executed, works in reverse as well: the context can bring authenticity to the sponsor.
For these Jets to remain the same old Jets — you know, the team that advanced to back-to-back A.F.C. championship games — they will have to execute the same formula Coach Rex Ryan has used since his arrival in 2009.
Strategy meant figuring out how to do a better job of executing the success formula.
Employees were hired because they knew how to execute the success formula.
Multibillion-dollar information technology systems for everything from geophysical analysis to enterprise resource planning to customer relations management were designed to execute the success formula, to make sure the right knowledge was in the right places to replicate previous successful decisions not to look at new decision options.
Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song four stars out of five, commenting that although the song was "formulaic," the formula was executed convincingly.
The organization's identity (British Petroleum), strategy (be an integrated oil company) and tactics (drilling, logistics, retail branding) were honed to execute that formula for success.
Hiaasen's new book, "Bad Monkey" (Knopf) — which, depending on how late the hour and how delayed the flight, one can relish as the vision in pristine form or as the formula reliably executed — marginally alters the setting, from Miami to the Keys, where the line between natural charm and tawdry tourist crap seems particularly fluid.
Pioneered by MOMA, with the Modern, and spreading, with varying degrees of success, to the Whitney (Untitled), the Guggenheim (the Wright), and the Museum of Arts and Design (Robert), the formula, if executed well, can create a sum that is greater than its parts.
