As New Year's Eve telecasts go, this one was not exactly a tightly planned, rigidly precise, Ryan Seacrest-style affair.
You don't plan it rigidly; you evolve it day by day in response to the behaviour of customers.
It also highlighted the frailty of following structures and game plans too rigidly.
As The Boston Globe reported this summer, Romney had the entire trip planned so rigidly that every gas station stop was predetermined before departure.
The program was rigidly arranged and planned with little room for spontaneity.
This escapade caused him to arrive late for Lewis's rigidly planned lunch".
"It's not the sort of thing that's rigidly planned out.
His ideas — known as scientific management or, simply, Taylorism — helped to inspire not only the modern factory but also the rigidly planned mid-century office, and they remain widespread in the business world.
His ideas known as scientific management or, simply, Taylorism helped to inspire not only the modern factory but also the rigidly planned mid-century office, and they remain widespread in the business world.
The workplace has been overwhelmed by a mad, Kafkaesque infrastructure of assessments, monitoring, measuring, surveillance and audits, centrally directed and rigidly planned, whose purpose is to reward the winners and punish the losers.
