As he began coaching Martino worked closely with Marcelo Bielsa, a rigid scheme builder who has been labelled by Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola among others as a master among masters.
But even that is a refreshing change from the stifling coherence of some of the grand old men of the left, for whom everything must conform to a rigid scheme of loyalties and enmities, and who appear unable to admit mistakes.
Under Mao's rigid scheme for annihilating culture, his maternal grandparents were packed off to a re-education program, and his paternal grandfather, prominent in theater and film, was sent away to the distant countryside, where he died alone, his own son not permitted to attend his funeral.
But Scottish Conservative transport spokesman Alex Johnstone questioned why it had taken Mr Brown "so long to peg the cost of off-peak rail fares and why he is determined to run such a rigid scheme".
Treatment for metastatic melanoma currently undergoes a transformation, changing the rigid scheme of dacarbazine as standard treatment in all stage-IV melanoma patients, attributed with a very low response rate and an extremely poor survival, into new, individualized therapeutic strategies.
Hurdles such as overly complicated bureaucracy and rigid financing schemes should be lowered, and subsidy schemes should allow for alternative business cases, including different products.
It created rigid national schemes in fields such as education, rural jobs and urban renewal which required the states that implemented them to put up significant funds.
They also argued that Etihad and its peers, backed by deep-pocketed governments and not burdened with outdated terminals, airport taxes and rigid wage schemes, enjoyed an unfair advantage that European airlines could never match.
It happens partly as a result of Skinner's halting delivery: like a teenager forced against his will to read poetry aloud in an English lesson, he dutifully obeys rigid rhyme schemes and metres at the expense of natural rhythm, lurching from line to line, putting emphaSIS on unlikely syllaBLES and break... ing words up in o der to make them fit.
Here his general impatience with numbers, technology and rigid conceptual schemes in medical decision-making comes to the fore, as he describes the efforts of two doctors to read the characters of their patients and to help them make decisions that they can live with, and ultimately die with.
