Some people hate the way, in groups, on holiday or wherever, parents suddenly have a rigid list of needs and demands ("No, I said we'd make cornflake cakes at 9.15," etc).
In General McMaster's view, PowerPoint's worst offense is not a chart like the spaghetti graphic, which was first uncovered by NBC's Richard Engel, but rigid lists of bullet points (in, say, a presentation on a conflict's causes) that take no account of interconnected political, economic and ethnic forces.
Most profile-based services present this question along with a rigid list of status options, including "Positive," "Negative" and "Ask Me".
Conger & Fulmer of Harvard Business Review comment, "succession management must be a flexible system oriented toward developmental activities, not a rigid list of high-potential employees and the spots they might fill".
"I guess I'm attempting not to pigeonhole myself by maintaining a rigid list of influences, but it's difficult because often I'm either completely immersed in a cacophony of visual arts via social media, or I'm completely detached and disconnected in order to try focus on my own song.
I'm not the kind of curmudgeon that Alan Jacobs rails against in his recent book The Pleasures of Reading in An Age of Distraction, the Mortimer-Adler-sort of person who has a rigid list of classics that everyone must read.
It seems the only rigid thing about the reincarnated Police is their set list, which hasn't changed substantially from one city to the next.
"We're not going to be bound by restrictions," he said, referring to rigid play lists that dominate the dial.
Governments emerge from smoke-filled rooms as much as from the ballot box, partly thanks to rigid party lists that give the centre too much control and fail to provide a direct link between members of parliament and their constituents.
Discussions about domain member transitions between the databases have been done at coarse-grained level, but to get a closer look, they had to be investigated at fine-grained level, for which the ten length-deviant and length-rigid superfamilies (list obtained from [ 7]) were selected.
