Sentences with phrase «break the culture of»

If Britain is really prepared to break the culture of worklessness, we should be prepared to consider rolling out mandatory work programmes far more widely.

She argued that if the subsequent governments sustain such long - term policies, it will help to break the culture of poverty.

It's how far we still must go to unleash innovation and creativity in our classrooms, to break a culture of teaching to the test, and to equip our students for success in an economy fueled by inquiry and imagination.

Not exact matches

«She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men,» she said, and her words sparked emotions of anger and, at the same time, the motivation to fight for change.

But research suggests everyone — employee, company, the culture at large — would be be better off if more of us took a real mid-day break.

Too many offices have a culture that discourages lunch breaks and other types of breaks.

Dig Deeper: Nolan Bushnell on Games and Parties in Company Culture How to Create a Company Philosophy: Fixing a Broken Company Culture As a company grows, it's possible for the leadership or the employees to lose sight of the founding values.

No, this book won't offer you many chuckles, but it might help readers break through our culture's unhelpful silence around our inevitable end and think through how to go about the final chapter of life with some dignity.

That's how you get a more balanced culture as well since Hunters tend to break a lot of china in order to land a deal at any cost while Farmers tend to be far more steady and reluctant to make waves inside the organization.

At that point in the run of «Breaking Bad,» Odenkirk wasn't even sure if the show or his character would make it to season three, given its low ratings and the fact that it wasn't yet at the top of pop culture conversations.

I'm a firm believer that there's always a better way and that's a part of the culture we're trying to federate through the organization so we can celebrate where we break something down that perhaps we were really proud of last year.

Stumpf said he did not believe the culture was broken and thought most of the employees did the right thing.

It also involves shoring up the weak aspects of the culture and simultaneously fixing the broken parts — changing the culture.

Still, while culture may be not be a make - or - break factor in an interview, it's of course important to get a sense of how candidates would fit into your organization.

«Miki generates incredible creative energy and a strong passion for breaking taboos and changing culture through storytelling,» said Tikhon Bernstam, an investor with Propulsion, of his decision to invest in Tushy.

Breaks are part of our creative culture.

«This comprehensive framework requires the city to implement sweeping operational changes to fix a broken system and dismantle a decades - long culture of violence,» Bharara said in a statement.

Just like car fuel, if you don't have the right company culture in place, you can find yourself broken - down on the side of the road.

Just like you need a tow truck to bring your car to the shop, there are additional tasks required when your culture breaks down (But don't worry, fixing a culture doesn't involve sitting in the front seat of the tow truck and wondering what that smell is).

The split of Breaking Bad's fifth and final season allowed the show's producers to add three extra episodes, points out Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture at Syracuse University.

Patti Fletcher, Ph.D., is the author of Disrupters: Success Strategies from Women Who Break the Mold (Entrepreneur Press 2018), gender equity advocate and expert authority on how to create a culture of inclusion to drive real business results.

This was combined with an internal lack of resilience owing to poor financial management and a broken company culture, as well as the «black cloud» that engulfs any company in big trouble, driving away even the most loyal customers and investors.

To those most appalled by the prospect of a President Trump, it's an ugly manifestation of America's bigoted id, or the triumph of celebrity culture over substance, or a product of a broken information ecology in which acceptance of facts is optional.

Workplace culture consultant Steve Langerud joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to break down the ethics of a kickback versus a compensation.

Khosrowshahi, who took the helm in August after former CEO Travis Kalanick was asked to step down amid a litany of regulatory problems, driver and consumer scandals and court cases, pledged to make a clean break with past practices that have lead to accusations of a toxic work culture.

Former employees have alleged a «soul - crushing» culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law.

Enterprise mobility allows businesses to create an entrepreneurial culture by allowing employees to work in a variety of environments — breaking traditional workplace boundaries.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

On June 30, star investor Chris Sacca wrote on Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story about McClure).

The lack of diversity in tech has created a culture and economy that disadvantages women and minorities in raising capital and in building ground - breaking companies with lasting impact.

Christians will also need to manifest loving community and family wholeness, which our broken culture desperately needs in the wake of the sexual revolution.

Because you are falling victim to one of the most subtle forms of anti-semitism out there... the view that the Jewish religion and culture were somehow «broken» and that Jesus was there to fix it.

Rather, liturgy breaks the bounds of the sanctuary and affects all that we do and indeed the wider culture as it brings God's people to God.

The parallel between Athens and Vienna ultimately breaks down not simply for the obvious reason that no European city could ever hope to monopolize the culture the way Athens did when Aeschylus and the young Socrates strolled amid the statuary of the Acropolis.

One thing is certain to a pastor: the only parishioners fighting the old battles are old themselves, their felt banners frayed and their guitar strings broken, while a young battalion is rising, with no animus against the atrophied adolescence of their parents, and only eager to engage a real spiritual combat in a culture of death.

This was a form of liberalism, but one that was a radical break from the tendency of earlier liberalism to be in close association with culture.

Our deep bench of culture critics assembled themselves to break down all their thoughts, feelings, and ideas on Marvel's latest epic.

However, as we see daily, this leads not to any real emancipation but to a deepening crisis and misery reflected in the broken hearts, minds and lives of somany of our fellow - citizens in our culture.

Thanks to the breaking of social bonds in our families and communities, and the lack of self - control that a culture of indulgence promotes, we will continue to become more bureaucratic and inefficient in our governance, while at the same time creating the conditions whereby citizens become less capable of leading their own lives.

He will broke no compromise with institutionalization, which is ultimately what he thought the social traditions of human cultures promoted, even as he resisted a liberalization that secularized the gospel.

This kind of event is breaking news to only two kinds of people: those who have no inkling whatsoever of historic Christian theology, and those who expect religious conviction always to yield to pop culture.

There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century with the tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.

Perhaps not since the generation of the classic American philosophers — Pierce, Royce, James, Dewey and Mead (none of them technical philosophers in the contemporary meaning of the term)-- has it been possible to range so broadly over the great intellectual issues of the day and break the taboo that would separate religion from secular culture.

The death and resurrection of Jesus has broken down cultural barriers throughout history — no other major religion has spread as far and across as many cultures as Christianity.

The social insecurity, which results from foreign rule and the foreign pressures which are effective so long as the Arab world is broken into small states with an average population of one to five millions, makes it impossible for Islamic culture to flower as it did in the days of the Abbasids.

Other criticisms are perhaps the result of Christians» being so in thrall to the tropes and conventions of Western politics, and so convinced of their own social importance, that they hear any call to break with that culture as a call for unconditional surrender.

The Church, and the papacy in particular, has broken with the «Constantinian» model of power in order to become, in accord with the vision of the Second Vatican Council, the «teacher and evangelist of culture,» a role that retrieves and renews the New Testament task of Peter to «strengthen the brethren.»

Central and eastern Europe didn't break free of the shackles of totalitarianism without trying, failing, and then trying again: It took a critical mass of people, determined to «live in the truth» no matter how difficult, to implode the communist culture of the lie and give a new birth of freedom to the lands Stalin claimed as his prize for helping beat Hitler.

The pain of a broken romance would pass, but the studied disinterest of the elite culture of the university — which was also the elite culture of the New York Times, of the secular media, and of the Washington Inner Beltway — was, it seemed clear enough, here to stay.

This valuation of the particular provides Buber with another criterion, that of the «historically possible» which leaves room for the unique: «It is a basic law of methodology not to permit the «firm letter» to be broken down by any general hypothesis based on the comparative history of culture; as long as what is said in that text is historically possible.»