Not exact matches
So, you'll
have to learn to turn a deaf ear to the complaints about how the new guy or girl doesn't «get it»; doesn't know every single thing on day one; isn't fitting into the
system or the
culture, etc..
A new panel of judges evaluates the applicants in four areas: strategy (a vision and how that vision is communicated and managed); capability (does the company
have the ability — the people, processes and
systems — to execute); commitment (the engagement and alignment, the
culture to execute); and financials, the numbers that prove the first three are driving results.
Mr. Johnson, a soft - spoken operator known for his focus on building Starbucks» mobile payments
systems and on executing the company's global strategy,
has been on a listening tour with employees over the last year to better appreciate the company's
culture.
«Even when you
have a deal that looks lovely on paper,» says Wharton's Emilie Feldman, «getting
cultures to fit together, people to stay on board, merging I.T.
systems and back offices: all these things are really hard.»
«If the company
has a quirky and eccentric
culture, consider wearing a vintage T - shirt over a dress or with a skirt — paired with clean sneakers,» says Whitney Casey, founder and CEO of Finery, a wardrobe operating
system that helps women find their perfect outfit.
Two tech companies, in particular,
have made pay transparency a core part of their company
culture, becoming dynamic case studies for what an open pay
system can do for business.
Let's assume the following: A) You
've written a job description that is concise, intriguing and honest; B) you're doing this all on your own, without the help of an HR person; C) you don't
have a standardized
system of recruiting and vetting;
D) you aren't so obsessed with your company
culture that you're looking for the exact right combination of personality, pedigree and the answer «honey badger» to the question «If you could be any animal...?»
It wasn't easy to put this
system in place: our team invested in research beforehand to make sure it was workable, and once we all agreed, we
had to encourage a change of
culture across our offices.
«One of the reasons that this [
culture]
has proved so unbelievably difficult to change is that the winners of the
system are the breadwinners who saw very little of their children.
How do we build a
system which
has space for those creative minds which move the whole
culture forward, while limiting the predators and parasites who suck the juices out of them and leave them poor and embittered?
With very little variation, Mr. Munger
would often say that he
had no idea how he could change something, whether that thing was a government agency, a business
culture, or the United States health care
system.
The Berkshire
culture to never sell a subsidiary, to centralize capital allocation, allow subsidiaries to use their own unique business
systems with zero interference from HQ, fair management compensation plans, treating shareholders like partners, to act quickly on ever deal, to pass up back deals, to
have the Rock of Gibraltar balance sheet with available cash to invest when the market crashes, to pay cash for quality businesses instead of issuing stock and to attract a unique set of business owners who
would only sell to Berkshire.
Several disgruntled former employees
have expressed concerns about «groupthink» being ingrained in what is widely known as a hyper - liberal company
culture value
system where expressions of other views are not welcome and can lead to being ostracized or being shown the door.
Perhaps, like me, your departure from the
system was a testimony to your family and friends and the
system you left that you believe it
had failed and
would continue to fail to create the
culture of actual freedom.
the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their
culture and people
have contributed less to man kind than any other
culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief
system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer
systems and even after thousands of years that other
cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage
systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.
They
'd actually learn about the reasons people develop belief
systems and how those beliefs
systems affect the
culture and society.
Whether in evangelical, practical, or intellectual terms, the combination of the three
systems in one — the democratic republic, a creative and dynamic economy, and an open, free, and pluralistic
culture —
has a proven modern record, surpassed by none, of raising up the poor.
That is why capitalism — and societies free not only in their economic
system but also in their polity and their
culture —
have arisen with less friction in areas where Jewish and Christian traditions are strong.
I also think that Christian values of forgiveness and justice
have powerfully impacted
culture, justice
system, welfare state, education etc, but maybe this is true of some Islamic tradtions!
Likewise, if 100
cultures develop religious
systems based on a real god I expect them to
have a good bit in common, or at least agree on the basics such as the number of gods.
The victory of the post-European techno - secular world and the universalization of its lifestyle and thinking
have spread the impression (especially in Asia and Africa) that Europe's value
system,
culture, and faith — in other words, the very foundations of its identity —
have reached the end of the road and
have indeed already disappeared.
Dean Kelley
has argued that the conservatives provide a clearer meaning
system for their adherents, The
culture at large is shifting on several fronts toward a style more prescriptive, less permissive.
It becomes the carrier of those
systems and ideologies (values and
cultures) within which it
has been nurtured.
Rape
culture pushes the victim - blaming mentality: the idea that if * she *
had done something differently — worn a different outfit (even though women get raped when dressed modestly; rapists don't care about what a person is wearing), didn't get drunk (opens a person up to anything, never mind that it is impossible for a person to give clear consent when they're intoxicated / inebriated), used the «buddy
system» (what if she wanted to go out by herself?
I
have called this the coup de
culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value
system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.
But there the assumption of everyone - missionary and indigenous persons alike - was that the
culture of literacy, the
culture and communications
system that the church
had mastered and in which it held power, was superior.
Of course through such coexistence for long periods, there developed symbiotic interpretations of religions and cultural and social values, creating not one but several composite
cultures and syncretic religious trends in different regions of the country in different periods of its history, with one or other religious value or cultural
system having dominant influence.
As we
have already pointed out, the
system of power
culture must eventually fall because of its inner contradictions, and in this we can take comfort, but our sense of comfort is premature if we suppose the failure of one evil
system means the reinstitution of that which sensitive men
have most prized.
Such interactions that relate to knowledge
systems,
culture, religious faiths, and for exchange of basic products
have a long history.
However, the
culture of our country is Christian based, and therefore to «add»
would change our
system, and it is not right.
The Western nations
have spread their
culture, religion, and economic
system around the world with the same idealist zeal.
Each
culture has its own morality
system and whether we want to admit it or not, there is a great
culture clash in our world... and we are not surviving.
The scientific and technical revolution of the past several centuries
has reduced the functional time - space within which the several races,
cultures, ideologies, religions and economic
systems of mankind live to the dimension of a village.
After much study, prayer and thought I am convinced that the idea that only men are allowed to teach scripture, be a pastor, be an elder etc. etc. was a teaching that came about due to the status of women during a particular time and
culture and continued because of the patriarchal
system that most churches
have continued to operate under.
Unless that technological, industrial establishment is radically controlled — thereby effecting a transformation of vast areas of our political, economic and social life — the
culture has a very good chance of destroying itself through increasingly inadequate supplies, through endless conflicts for those ever scantier materials, and through the
systems of control and authority necessary to cope with each of these dangers.
We
have come to a time when all the diverse
cultures,
systems, and peoples must live together in intimate association one with the other.
Heretofore, this earth
has witnessed the emergence of single - celled living organisms, the growth of multicelled plant organisms, the advent of animals with centralized nervous
systems making self - directed activity possible, and the flowering of humanity with its far - flung
culture.
They are, for example, the Bible, creeds, confessions, theological
systems, deviant heresies, moral codes, myths, buildings, social institutions — everything that
has been left as an extant deposit within the developing Christian
culture, and which can be studied by the historian.
As the distinctions between Christians and an ever - growing post-Christian
culture emerge, we will
have to set aside any nominal belief
systems and become active agents of God's Kingdom.
But it
has now become clear to an ever increasing number of our contemporaries all over the world that this «profit
system» of a «rugged individualism» must be replaced by an order which, without sacrificing the values and attainments of bourgeois
culture, is impelled by a new cultural temper.
If any of us ever
had illusions that a reformist posture was sufficient, either from a theological perspective or as social policy, the intractability of governmental and economic
systems, the growth of massive and seemingly uncontrollable
systems of surveillance, military power, and mass
culture increasingly narrow the scope of our options to those of resistance and withdrawal.
In the first few centuries of the Christian era, a synthesis of thought took place between the declining Graeco - Roman
culture and the still - evolving
system of Christian thought which
had burst out of Judaism.
Culture has many complicated meanings, but I use it here simply to describe a system of beliefs (about God or reality or ultimate meaning), of values (about what is true, good and beautiful), of customs (about how to behave and relate to others), and of the institutions which express the culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it m
Culture has many complicated meanings, but I use it here simply to describe a
system of beliefs (about God or reality or ultimate meaning), of values (about what is true, good and beautiful), of customs (about how to behave and relate to others), and of the institutions which express the
culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it m
culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it meaning.
In its essential assumptions, theirs is the belief
system of what John Paul II
has aptly called the
culture of death.
I
would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education
system, social reforms, free thought and our
culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.
Oh and speaking of hypocrisy and or intolerance... let me clue you into the LGBT
culture and belief
system — they
have as MUCH racism, intolerance and misogyny and misandry, bigotry, social and elitist classist division and hate of heto ro se xuals you cant even BEGIN to imagine.
Money may be the nearest thing we
have to the bottom line in our
culture, but we take it for granted that people just don't study the phenomenon of money and its history and
systems.
In the absence of an alternative the whole world is now suddenly thrown open to a global
culture symbolized by Western ways in drinks, clothes, movies and music, styles of life and value
systems, all of which
have a powerful influence on the minds of people, particularly of the younger generation.
The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which
had developed its own traditional
culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal
system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common
culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.
While work is necessary and we
have the freedom the earn and enjoy the good fruits of labor, hustle
culture creates a
system where overworking is necessary and essential for material success and where the ultimate goal in life is to achieve wealth and prosperity, by any means necessary.