Sentences with phrase «the culture clash»

Culture clashes are a well - known risk when companies merge, and Uber's culture sounds like it's particularly difficult to merge with.

These differences in generational thinking don't mean you shouldn't bring on interns, they simply mean you should have policies in place to forestall potential culture clashes.

But over a career at the highest levels in corporate finance, Porat has been equally unflappable, navigating physical obstacles and fighting great metaphorical discomfort — the race - the - clock stress of the financial crisis, the tension of negotiations among big - ego executives, and now the culture clash of imposing financial discipline at tech's biggest idea factory.

Many employees had reservations about the deal, anticipating a major culture clash between the other company's top - down approach and Medtronic's empowered middle tier of engineers and marketers.

Summary: «Pakistan - born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash.

Bernstein's Monteyne pointed to the risks of bringing together companies with different cultures, noting that Morrisons - Safeway lost 28 percent of their sales through a combination of store sales, integration problems and culture clash during the last big UK grocery merger over a decade ago.

The bottom line is that Apple's ambitions in the content industries seem to be hampered in part by a lack of a consistent vision about what the company wants to do and why, combined with a culture clash between existing movie studios and TV networks about who is the most important player in the relationship, and who gets to control the terms.

The ire the tech giants are engendering from regulators stems in part from a culture clash, agrees Entchev, the lawyer.

O'Leary blames the meltdown primarily on the culture clash between the two companies.

@Reality - So you don't think the thousands of years of west vs east culture clashes have nothing to do with it?

I don't remember the culture clash thing, but then there may have been a part we didn't stay for.

In about 2000/2001 I was in Austin to dialogue about emerging ministry, and facilitate a «culture clash» simulation game based on values and beliefs of people from the kinds of «postmodern cultures» that I'd been interacting with since the early 1990s.

This is what the current «culture clash» in America is all about.

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.

This causes further tensions in relations with the Canadian public and the perception of Sikhs, what we see as taking a stand and fighting what is wrong, many see as causing uneeded violence, it's a huge culture clash.

The culture clash happens in all sorts of innocent places.

Culture Clash Torn between the values of her native and adopted countries, Grace Park is again reaching for stardom, this time on her terms

It creates a huge culture clash, and I think many in these communities will tell you they can feel the police disdain for them.

Although our culture clashes are unique to our own situation, I am sure other couples in multicultural relationships have faced similar issues when parenting.

One of the big problems with trying to reach out to the community to improve the relationships and hopefully improve the care was that while we could deal with policies, what we really were going to be dealing with was a major culture clash and how to navigate the culture clash and soften that was what I felt was the biggest challenge.

The film milks the culture clash for all it's worth, with Anglicised Sajid swearing in full Northern accent all across the Pakistani countryside.

He sees a culture clash, with a constantly evolving company that has become a global symbol of innovation laboring in a political world that is hidebound and inefficient.

But does cultural harmony really reign, or can you expect to experience a culture clash if you decide to head East or West?

It's this culture clash between industry and academia creates this mostly one - way flow.

When cultures clash, the result is rarely a draw.

Itai Roffman, a graduate student at Haifa University in Israel who worked at GAT, says the situation arose because of a culture clash.

Culture clashes are at their most interesting while dating.

Are you thinking, «culture clash!»

Russian women, like so many others are not so enthralled by their own culture that you need to worry about the monumental culture clash you see in the distance.

It's the kind of movie that inspires word - of - mouth recommendations by speaking the international language of culture clash.

You know: Enlightened humans have culture clashes with alien humanoids amid much yammering about prime directives and warp drives.

The Big Sick plays less like a great movie than a platform for its appealing tone, but it's so well acted and dense with insights into the culture clash at its center that nothing about the central dynamic is strained.

Even if one agrees with the disgust they feel at this privileged, entitled class» complacency and complicity, a little more subtlety and a more nuanced approach to the dynamics of this culture clash would have made the film that little bit more effective.

Monsters in relationships with humans, the human parents meeting the monsters for the first time, trying to fit in but kinda not doing, making faux pas, a total culture clash, we get it movie.

Its a good premise - road rip with extra Icelandic - Japanese culture clash - the scenery is stunning, the lead actor plays a nice mixture of confusion and adaption, and there's a cameo by Seijun Suzuki as the wise old grandfather.

The film centres on the seemingly irreconcilable culture clash between the pernickety British - Australian author and the gosh - darnit informality and enthusiasm of her American wooer.

Iram Haq's sophomore feature is a powerful story of a young woman growing up between two cultures, with no control over her life choices, who must carve out her own path despite a significant culture clash.

How do cultures clash in this movie?

Based on the true story of the film's writers (and real - life couple), Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, this modern culture clash shows how Pakistan - born Kumail and his American girlfriend, Emily, have to overcome the expectations of his family and their 1,400 - year - old traditions.

If you watch only one trauma - centric sitcom about a deadpan stand - up coping with culture clashes and the impermanence of life this year, make it this one.

Directed by Michael Showalter and starring Zoe Kazan and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick sees Pakistan - born comedian Kumail and grad student Emily fall in love, only to struggle as their cultures clash, and Emily contracts a mysterious illness.

The culture clash is dealt with in a very charming and humorous way.

The film's a generational culture clash wrapped in a lyrical fantasy, but quietly so.

Unfortunately, the result is little more than your typical fish - out - of - water story with Douglas and Garcia's characters encountering resistance from the Japanese police and learning to cope with the culture clash.

The Hundred - Foot Journey is kind of an opposite of recent sleeper hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — an Indian family comes to Western Europe and cultures clash.

The cross-Atlantic culture clash is something that the film dabbles in, but ultimately never takes anywhere.

Topics such as immigration and varying cultures clashing together due to sitcom - style antics (in this case a confusing manner of apartment leasing) have been well - trodden indie subjects for years now, yet The Visitor wrangles this oft - used story to magnificent heights.

These include the varying comforts and malaise of the «urban haute bourgeoisie» in Metropolitan (1990); how certain class cultures clash with political realities abroad in Barcelona (1994); and the collapse of the utopian ideals of disco in The Last Days of Disco (1996).

Written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley), this charming romance is based on their real life relationship, following a Pakistani - American comedian, Kumail, whose relationship with his girlfriend, Emily (Zoe Kazan), has to overcome the headwind of their culture clash — and a significant illness.

Dean Caudwell sees Marcus not fitting in and dealing with a culture clash of sorts and goes about trying to correct that, though they immediately bang heads due to differing viewpoints on just about everything.