Sentences with phrase «about a culture by»

Around the turn of the century, anthropologists realized that they could tell a great deal about a culture by studying its use of language.

Your other meals can either be prepared at the Bodhi lodge (every bungalow / room has access to cooking space) or you can support the local economy and learn more about its culture by sampling local fare.

You can learn a lot about the culture by picking up on cues in the interview.

Not exact matches

It's not just about self - actualization: employers can benefit greatly by institutionalizing a boastful culture, too.

With wide - ranging accolades, Seth and Noah Goodman of Northstar Recycling know a thing or two about building a great business by investing in culture.

All this was accomplished by building a corporate culture aimed at making running about camaraderie rather than cutthroat competition.

Though concerns about flying and airplane safety permeate popular culture, it's much safer to travel by plane than by car.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

By doing so, you're making a powerful statement to the rest of your team about how important your culture is — what is tolerated and what is not.

As Confederate statues and memorials are being removed across the U.S. following the violence at a weekend rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to complain about the actions, calling it «sad» and saying the «culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart.»

What most companies fail to realize about winning cultures is that they don't exist by accident.

Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler opened up earlier this year in a blog post about the toxic culture of workplace harassment at the company, alleging that she was sexually harassed by a male manager at Uber whose actions were knowingly brought to the attention of HR.

During that interview, Parsons also responded to a question about sexism in the tech industry by disputing that any such culture exists at GoDaddy — at least in terms of pay disparities.

Much has been written about the connection between corporate culture and branding, and it should be thunderingly obvious by now that hiring people who don't share a company's values is, in the long run, a recipe for disaster.

In a wide - ranging discussion about Amazon's culture and management techniques, he is by turns inquisitive and challenging, but also charming and relaxed.

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.

Theranos was doomed by a culture of secrecy that kept everyone in the dark about what was really going.

One: books about how the financial crash happened and why (Making it Happen, The Alchemists, The Unwinding, The Billionaire's Apprentice, After the Music Stopped) and two: books about the business and culture of technology (The Everything Store, Smarter Than You Think, as well as Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton and Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, by Fred Vogelstein.)

Leaders talk a lot about creating better employee experiences by offering more work - life balance and an enjoyable culture.

By building a culture of candor, you get an honest assessment of your leadership skills without employees being worried about possible negative ramifications.

«By its nature,» Wistia CEO Chris Savage says, this mindset «fosters a culture of long - term, future - centric thinking that allows [you] to make healthier decisions about personnel and performance.»

While it might not sound sexy, high - performance company culture is more about living and working by a set of unifying company - wide goals, values and beliefs.

Glueck sought inspiration for how to evolve the company's culture, and referred to Good to Great, a book by Jim Collins about how 11 companies shook off mediocrity to become market leaders.

A story about an entrepreneur's experience that led him or her to found a company, or one about the history of a particular product, for instance, can enhance a company's culture by conveying its heritage or sense of purpose and direction.

Andrew Medal chats with Rich Antoniello about how Complex Media is redefining the culture by sparking conversation through hip hop, sneakers, tech, news and sports.

Asper became the network's CEO last December and since then he has cleaned up its logo (no more blood), clarified its mission («We have to be about the culture of fighting) and boosted subscriptions by 10 percent (subscribers now number roughly 1 million).

From the moment FiveStars began hiring additional employees (by now, it has about 80), the culture of living together grew.

In this respect Google is like the bizarro - Apple: the iPhone maker has the distribution channel and business model to make Siri the dominant assistant in its users» lives, but there are open questions about its technology prowess when it comes to artificial intelligence specifically and services generally; moreover, efforts to improve are fundamentally stymied by the company's device - centric culture and organizational structure.

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The pace of change in our economy and our culture is accelerating — fueled by global adoption of social, mobile, and other new technologies — and our visibility about the future is declining.

Thinx has denied the harassment allegations, made by a former employee in a legal complaint, and says other allegations about the company's culture are inaccurate.

«We love to talk about the over-the-top work cultures, fancy catered lunches, yoga classes, paid sabbaticals, work from home and open bars that so many of the tech titans provide, but what isn't talked about is the work ethic required by their founders to achieve the level of success that afforded those very amenities to be possible today.»

Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love And Play When No One Has The Time, spoke at WorkHuman about the stress caused by a culture that glorifies constant busy - ness.

While companies have different rules about relationships between employees — some prohibit them, while others require disclosure — Uber is in a dicey spot right now and any revelations of an out - of - control company culture, especially by top execs, are problematic at this time.

«Muslims are definitely being impacted by this content,» Ahussain told Newsweek about the influence material found on social media potentially has on the culture at large.

This week, to continue the conversation, I am posting another article by Molly that talks about how important a company's culture is to its brand and to its very existence.

By LAURA LOREK Publisher and reporter with Silicon Hills News Creating a great company culture isn't just about having perks like free lunches, Ping Pong tables, and nap rooms.

However, it's often even more about other things: being part of a community, being surrounded by inspiring people, and to broaden your horizon with different cultures and stories.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

From blaming the victim to the way lyrics which glorify rape and smacking or killing your «bitch» seem to go unnoticed by people who should be in an uproar about it, to the ridiculously light sentences handed out to perpetrators of rape and even murder of a woman or child, our culture is tacitly condoning this mind - set by their very silence.

It might be safe to forget about the thousands that have been forgotten by popular culture if not by historians.

All those religion books that were written thousand years ago by people who had no idea about other cultures or how could they make sense one thousand years later are no better than cartoons.

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

Speaking of motherhood... Have you seen the over-the-top article in the Nation about Conservative Christian fears about demographic collapses and efforts to win the various culture wars by out - populating the enemies?

The struggles of these Christians among the mainstream who chose to speak out about Vietnam illustrate well the new setting occasioned by Protestant displacement in American culture.

But in terms of priorities, focus, and direction, assumed evangelicalism begins to give gradually increasing energy to concerns other than the gospel and key evangelical distinctives, to gradually elevate secondary issues to a primary level, to be increasingly worried about how it is perceived by others and to allow itself to be increasingly influenced both in content and method by the prevailing culture of the day.

By the way I agree that there is an element of truth in what you say about such wisdom, love lacking in Christian culture.