Sentences with phrase «culture shapes what»

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Our COO Leo gave a talk recently about how company culture isn't something you can really shape, but rather how you have to sit, observe and write down what you see.

Tony Hsieh was the mastermind behind an incredible shaping of culture, turning what could have been one of the dullest and most robotic of companies into a shining example of employee engagement and customer service.

Leadership shapes and sets the tone for what the culture should be within the organization.

That ability — to actually shape the culture, talk about the things we're going to do, how we're going to treat each other, what we want our values to be — is different.

heres a holiday that has maintained its meaning thru - out the ages, why... the JEWISH have reverence for the past, its lessons and people that taught them, the events that shaped the jewish culture... most of the rest have nothing worth remembering besides there past and since thats not held with any amount of importance the future looks bleek at best... we are what we are because of yesterday, and tomorrow doesn't exist if today becomes our deathbed!

What happens to a culture shaped by the Bible, if the culture ceases to believe that the Bible tells truth?»

«Moving these «holydays» (how the etymology of that word says so much about what they were to our culture) represents a symbolic retreat of huge proportions; conceding the notion that the secular world and the imperative of its ephemeral commitments must now be considered more real than the way in which the divine has entered our history and shaped it.»

These scientific and technological innovations should spark lively debate and fresh articulations of what it means to be human and what role technology should have in shaping culture.

The same may apply in other countries: when one seeks to develop theological forms which arise out of «people's» culture, what sources are being used to identify people's culture and what is the role of the interpretive power of the media in shaping those sources?

And it is about the way religion and television are today acting, interacting, and reacting over the question of who will shape the faith and value system of our culture in the future, and what the shape of that worldview will be.

Television is constantly, seven hours a day, every day, every week, all year long, shaping our faith, our values, and our culture, and while we may feel vaguely uneasy, we do n`t know what is happening to us.

Just as we depend for physical existence on the forces of the natural world, so to find meaning, fulfillment and purpose in life, we depend on the culture which continues to shape us, on what we receive from one another and on what we are able to give back in return.

But what of a Chicago, Yale, or Princeton that aspired to be a major culture - shaping institution?

These conceptions of what the Christian ought to do, the objector will point out, are themselves very much shaped by culture.

Says Newbigin: «It is only when we are exposed to a totally different culture and a different language, shaped by a widely different history, that we can turn back and see that what we always took for granted is only one way of seeing things.»

To what extent is contemporary Christian feminism shaped by adopting the views of the dominant culture, and to what extent might it represent an attempt to transform or Christianize those views?

Or to what extent has Christian African American political thought in the past half - century been shaped by a desire simply to be full - fledged participants in American culture and to what extent has it been shaped by a separatist impulse?

My prediction that these movements will take a few years to burn out (at least among evangelicals) and make way for what Tom Nelson calls «hopeful realism» — neither naïve nor despairing about the church's role in shaping the dominant culture — may have been overly cautious.

So it is a matter of plain fact that Christianity molded what came to be called Europe (whose original name, after all, was «Christendom»), but to say so does not by itself tell us whether that shaping of European culture through the medium of Christian ideas was a good thing or a bad thing to begin with, let alone whether those ideas speak to us now.

Indeed, many of the peculiar political, economic, and finally religious shifts that have contributed to the secularized cultures of today have been shaped by elements of these encounters, and (though we shall never know) may have taken place in their own way without what we call the Reformation ever having happened.

If basic spiritual, moral, and religious matters are not included in the primary understanding of why people do what they do, why civilizations follow the courses they follow, and why cultures get shaped the way they do get shaped, then something essential about the human condition is falsified.

I don't believe I'm not saying anything much different than what you wrote above, but I would encourage you to point out that shaping role of culture that underlies who we become as humans rather than simply accepting cultural assumptions as givens that can not themselves be challenged.

But the response reveals something of the way we tend to think about our faith traditions — as systems to either accept or reject rather than little cultures that (for better or worse... or, more likely, a bit of both) indelibly shape how we think, who we know, what we fear and long for and love.

We need to work through, with great breadth and depth, what our actual experience has been, both in the dominant culture shaped by males and in the suppressed experiences of women.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

Don FosterLiberal Democrat MP for Bath and Shadow Culture SecretaryWith its terrifyingly believable vision of what could happen if the state holds too much power over the individual, 1984 shaped my fundamental belief in liberalism.

Here's a great opportunity for the ones - and - zeroes crowd to contribute their skillz and experience to what's shaping up to be a pivotal development in our contemporary political culture.

Although it remains unclear precisely what role U.S. strategic culture will play in shaping future space policy, it is likely that a sense of U.S. exceptionalism and the use of space to protect U.S. interests in vital circumstances will remain.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

She's touched the lives of thousands of students, helping to shape the next generation with an enthusiastic belief in what is possible, not just what is practical, through encouraging a life - changing culture of innovation.»

«What we do to shape our culture comes from listening to employees,» notes Vertex's Kelly - Croswell.

But if you strip away all the paraphernalia then really what culture is about at its core is about innovations that are not encoded in the genome somehow and are passed on, not by genetic transmission, and are not sort of shaped by natural selection, which is the normal stuff of evolution; but it is transmitted socially through social learning.

The Mind Body Code is the language you learn from your culture that enables you to interpret your world, shape your self - concept and find meaning in what you do.

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What made the film so brilliant and compelling despite its theoretically repellent cast of characters is that instead of going for cheap shots or silly attempts at psychological insight, Coppola simply observed them in ways that helped inspire a certain understanding into their mindsets and how they had been shaped and influenced by a celebrity - obsessed culture that overwhelms them on a daily basis.

What is the culture of your school — does it shape and grown the future - ready kids?

As I've discovered in leading a diverse high school, mentoring teachers to be leaders of their own professional practice — what I call inside - out leadership — is the way to shape a positive school culture and increase learning.

The clips from the documentary, Writing Across Borders, provide further evidence that culture plays a role in the perception of what makes good writing, and that students» cultural experiences shape their responses to writing, reinforcing for teacher candidates the importance of sensitive teacher feedback.

Such questions are tied to the creation of curriculum around bullying, because they involve recognizing levels of human connectivity, the consequences of words and actions, and the ways that culture shapes who we are and what we do.

Learn how culture shapes our idea of what God is, what our purpose is, and why some religions last, while others fade with fallen dynasties.

Despite pushback from anti-pit-bull activists (and a campaign to award the book one - star reviews on Amazon), Pit Bull has been widely praised as an even - handed, factual exploration of how history and culture shape our perception of pit bull - type dogs (and, for what it's worth, has still earned five stars on Amazon).

In Adriano Costa's installation, From My Body Comes, Through Your Body Goes, an enigmatic composition by different materials, shapes, textures and colours broadens the boundary between art and non-art, precious and valueless, while what is considered as our commodity culture is transformed into a symbolic universe.

Graham Fagen examines how cultures are shaped in relation to each other, what he calls «cultural forms and formers.»

The feminist values inherent to Szwarc's work draw from the source of what contributes to shaping a young woman's virtues while celebrating the history of being a young lady growing up today, and the performativity American culture encourages.

The exhibitions, realized in close cooperation with the artists, expand traditional notions of what art is and explore the rich amalgam of voices and cultures that continually shape China.

As an early female hire, I'm excited to contribute to the company's culture - shaping what success will look like — for both my career and the company.

YouTube says although it's an «increasingly powerful force in shaping what matters in content and culture», and its definitely both a popular site for viewing and sharing content with friends.

About Blog A small group of young Christians who have spent several years working out what our faith looks like in public.We host thoughtful and gracious conversations about Christianity's shape in the public square.Classical, conservative discourse on all issues of faith, culture and politics.

About Blog A small group of young Christians who have spent several years working out what our faith looks like in public.We host thoughtful and gracious conversations about Christianity's shape in the public square.Classical, conservative discourse on all issues of faith, culture and politics.