Sentences with phrase «about changing the culture»

«If they are truly serious about changing the culture, then cleaning house is necessary,» Hudson says.

With the steadfast support of his manager, Bobby Cox, Mazzone went about changing the culture of the pitching staff, doing everything he could to get his pitchers on the mound as often as possible.

Learn more about the changing the culture of competitive youth sports, as explained by sports expert and educator John O'Sullivan.

If Pope Francis is serious about changing the culture of the church, he should yank Ratzinger out of the Vatican «palace» (where was supposedly going to come back to live as Pope Emeritus).

«It was about changing the culture in our neediest schools towards one of excellence, and demonstrating, in a time of great financial stress in our state, that we can do something really dramatic and bold in our most difficult schools,» Raymond said.

Learn from one of the team members of the 2017 Gold Medallion Award winning program about changing the culture of your district to inspire hope and empower students to be well.

How about changing the culture so that the CEO isn't making 50 times what the average worker is?

But this isn't the whole story — it's not just about accommodating personal circumstance, it's about changing the culture of legal work to stop accepting burnout as an inevitable price to pay for being a lawyer.

With the help of a grant from and thought partnership with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, Tank - Crestetto and Hurley set about changing the culture of OUSD by helping all the adults become SEL - literate.

When I brought up this topic, ASHI Past - President Marv Goldstein said, «As one of the home inspectors who was around at the beginning of ASHI, it's not about changing the culture — ASHI started out as an association where home inspectors gathered to help one another.

Not exact matches

I recently had the chance to talk with Huffington about her mission to change the culture of sleep.

«It's about how do you leverage the diversity you bring into your company for the benefit of your products, for your work force, for your culture,» she told Inc.'s Salvador Rodriguez onstage at the Change Catalyst's Tech Inclusion conference in October.

In the 31 years since the Walkman was introduced, it has sold about 220 million units and changed the way people interact with their music — it became such an important part of popular culture that it even earned a spot in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986.

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.

When asked if anything about Rent the Runway's culture needs to change, Hyman says yes — that it could do a better job of on - boarding new hires.

Valukas also portrayed a corporate culture in which there was heavy pressure to keep costs down, a reluctance to report problems up the chain of command, a skittishness about putting safety concerns on paper, and general bureaucratic resistance to change.

I address this topic thoroughly in my new book, TakingPoint, which is about leading organizational transformation and the role culture plays in successfully leading change.

It didn't happen overnight, but when senior leaders throughout the military ranks, especially in special operations, got behind this change effort, started demonstrating the new behaviors themselves and talked about the new vision every day; only then didn't the culture start to shift to align with the vision and strategy.

Every new hire will change your company culture, so if you aren't thinking about the cultural fit when you interview a candidate, you could end up with a culture growing apart from what you had envisioned.

In a 1 - on - 1 interview, Vice President Biden sits down with Dr. David Agus to talk about the progress made through the Cancer Moonshot and the strategy for the work ahead, including how we must change the culture in the fight to end cancer.

Jill Konrath, three - time best - selling author and sales methodology expert, joins us to talk about why a sale equals a change in the status quo for the customer, why experimentation is powerful and necessary in today's sales culture, and why sales is no longer a numbers game but a game of learning more and learning more efficiently.

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

Chinese businesses have expressed difficulties with adjusting to the specificities of business culture in Russia — likely referring to its slow pace and complex bureaucracy — compared to the business cultures in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.61 Even though Russian attitudes toward the Chinese may be improving, this change is only recent, and long - standing perceptions that Russians harbor anti-Chinese sentiment may still fuel Chinese doubts about the feasibility of pursuing business endeavors in Russia.

«While there are many things we need to change about our culture, I believe that making Uber a more diverse and inclusive workplace is key,» Hornsey wrote.

But the Malaysia mess does raise questions about the depth of these reforms — and serves as a reminder about how hard it is to change a bank's culture.

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.

Learn about the company culture of a startup leading a movement to drive change in the Latinx professional community.

But the changes are taking place and while I am a bit suspect of the BOJ's role with QE, I am more hopeful about the change in corporate culture.

♦ Richard Vigilante is writing in National Review about the changing forms of liberalism and conservatism, and the last line makes this one worth citing: «The future of conservatism seems to lie in a concern for the state not of the deficit, or of the defense budget, but of the culture.»

When I started this blog, one of my goals was to re-examine the fundamentals of my faith in the context of a changing culture and my emerging doubts about Christianity.

In an increasingly diverse and rapidly changing culture, some people are anxious about shifting cultural norms, civil rights, and religious liberty.

This isn't about taking a social media fast or turning a blind eye to the sad things about our culture that need to change.

While external legislation and laws are important, are we not a people who really believe it is only the inward change brought about by the power of the gospel that really transforms lives and culture for eternity?

Today's rapidity of change (technological, symbolic, metaphorical, communicative) challenges us to reflect and communicate about faith within changing Church communities in changing cultures.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

In his next of a series which looks at the challenges of change, culture and technology, Gerard Kelly asks whether our most basic assumptions about family life are really true.

In his next of a series which looks at the challenges of change, culture and technology, Gerard Kelly asks whether our most basic assumptions about family... More

There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

Whenever you believe in something without evidence, believe that this thing is ordained by the most intelligent being in the universe, and that no amount of reasoning or discussion can change your mind about it, then you make a culture war completely inevitable.

In this we can again distinguish the scientific and technological changes brought about in modern times, alongside a humanistic culture and the unification of the world under capitalistic globalization.

Believe what the people in his day and culture --- hardly, he was all about change.

There are other sins described that are not God's best that in modern culture have been accepted, divorce, adultery gossiping etc. it doesn't change what God says about these things either.

Journalism, he concluded, «has been asleep at the switches,» because the Net is «not simply a story about technology, but it's a revolutionary change in the society and culture.»

Less, what if instead of thinking about our next vocational, world changing, culture making move — what if you and I took a serious inventory of how the people around us are affected by our lives.

The most remarkable thing about the international embrace of technology is that modern humanity has agreed with Christianity that we have a right, indeed a duty, to change the world — a notion many cultures do not swallow easily.

As I have indicated, change and transformation will be offered from new voices and new perspective — new voices representing the pluralism within culture as a whole and within theological education, and new perspectives that allow us to speak about practices and utopian visions within these practices.

We can choose to live this way, but then we also have to relinquish any notion of being agents of change in our culture; and we have to accept that the world will not care about what we have to say.

While some social critics accuse youth of being lazy, indulgent, and narcissistic, others see cultural attitudes about work changing because of a transition from an industrial to a service culture.

Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.