Such rigid structures were causing teachers to lose their professional pride and feeling of autonomy.

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To justify these solutions, the team's next step is to perform studies comparing inflatable and rigid structures for crew habitats.

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But what does entrepreneurial marketing look like in big, complex organizations with silos, hierarchies and rigid structures built-in for decades?

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He methodically and carefully set out to dismantle the rigid structures and the leftover, but still entrenched, thinking from a bygone era.

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In addition, in order to deal with the ever increasing volume of information, society has created rigid structures to compress and channel the information.

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These include their high strength, which makes it possible to create extremely rigid structures in terms of torsion and bending, excellent crash performance and low weight.

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Many of them are still dominated by rigid hierarchies and pay structures.

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