Sentences with phrase «down hierarchy»

And yet, many organizations simply paint a «new economy» façade on a rigid old top - down hierarchy paradigm and expect people to thrive.

In drawing from the music and art movements of the region as well as merging the distinct qualities of film and video to explore how the physicality of materials or actions is transferred into digital space, the artist also wants to break down the hierarchy of expertise.

For the portraits, shot primarily in black - and - white film, she asks her subjects to look at her directly in the eye, effectively breaking down the hierarchy of photographer and subject.

A daring escape and a visit from a mysterious cultish figure known as The Outsider provides Corvo with means to vengeance, supernatural powers, to help you bring down the hierarchy that runs the city's government.

In management terms, this is like shifting from a strict top - down hierarchy of organization, to a more fluid system of peer - to - peer collaboration.

The research shows that the score for the bird's song takes shape as it gets relayed down a hierarchy of brain structures.

The researchers also uncovered a systematic bias against women with elite doctorates, who slid further down the hierarchy in their faculty jobs compared with men from the same institutions.

«They're based not on popularity, but rather on shared interests and common experiences, where kids can be themselves and they're not constantly jockeying for position or worried about being knocked down the hierarchy.»

Though Blind, a # 15m purchase from Ajax, was second behind Chris Smalling in league minutes played last season, Mourinho does not believe the Netherlands international possesses the physical stature to be a first - choice in his defence and is well down a hierarchy of central midfielders.

The hierarchic approach implies a serialistic instead of a dualistic view; the transformation of physical into mental events, and vice versa, is effected not by a single leap over the barrier, but by a series of operational steps up or down the hierarchy.

There are good reasons (given below) for saying that no line can be drawn between feeling entities and non-feeling entities as we go down the hierarchy of natural entities.

Because the Catholics are the ones who put up barriers between people and Christ with their top - down hierarchy of POPES, which is not what Christ intended.

The range of potential configurations apt to be realized grows smaller as we move down the hierarchy toward the level of the actual event.

It always seems to come way down the hierarchy in any list of retirement risks.

Instead of a top - down hierarchy, there's a flatter «holarchy» that distributes power more evenly.

Today's business world is flattening out, with a focus on meritocracy, and a distaste for the Industrial Era top - down hierarchy that defined the workplace for the Baby Boomer generation.

«It keeps things loose and, at the same time, I think it breaks down hierarchy.»

I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with women he called «co-workers.»

Consciously employing commonly used artistic techniques, such as trompe l'oeil, action painting, graphic design, screen printing, and rudimentary drawing, Josh Reames» paintings break down hierarchies of mark - making, art historical references, computer graphics, labels, and everyday objects in a manner drawn from the non-objective «infinite scroll» of images and information we encounter in both the online and real world.

«These feminist artists broke down the hierarchies of what is considered acceptable in the world of sculpture, whether it's the use of wire or cloth or yarns or foam or fiberglass,» said Paul Schimmel, the former chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, who organized the gallery's show.

Traditional top - down hierarchies in bridge organization need to be revisited (picture from Hans Hederström, CSMART).

Not exact matches

At our app development company, we've turned to self - organization: a new way of doing things that empowers our engineers to make their own decisions and move at speeds they would quite frankly never reach were they being restrained by a top - down corporate hierarchy.

You also are more likely to believe people lower down in a hierarchy are there because they deserve to be,» reports Insights by Stanford Business.

You also are more likely to believe people lower down in a hierarchy are there because they deserve to be,» explains the writeup, confirming a reality most of us experienced first hand in high school.

While hierarchy is natural — stretching back to prehistory when hunters worked in teams and someone needed to take charge so the group could be successful — the top - down approach today hinders participation, particularly when someone has to gather the courage to challenge his or her boss.

We'd wake up, walk 20 feet down the hall, sit down at the table, not move except to eat, then go to bed,» Ho tells Fast Company, claiming the unusual arrangements helped the team be more innovative and productive, save money and instill a horizontal, hierarchy - free culture.

In a world in where the social contract between employer and employees has broken down (careers are no longer created within one company, but across several organizations), where hierarchies have been replaced by networks, where products have been replaced by solutions, and where agility has replaced bureaucratic coordination — the way you lead has to change.

Break down traditional hierarchies and cliques by training workers to do a number of jobs, from the menial to the challenging.

Few more thoughts: (1) I also think that putting comments in hierarchy structure slows down dialogue.

If you take the genomes of any two animals on this planet (yes, including homo sapiens - we are advanced animals), and plot out the corresponding similarities down to the very last letter, what you're left with is a perfect hierarchy (or family tree).

We apply the Household Codes most faithfully to our own lives, not when we use them to reinforce power structures and hierarchy, but when we use them to break those power structures down at the foot of the cross.

It can sometimes seem like there's a hierarchy of holiness, with missionaries, pastors and brilliant preachers at the top and everyone in a more «ordinary» job further down.

The new leader, Drucker maintains, will be like a symphony conductor, coordinating employees grouped around tasks, rather than a general passing down orders to personnel arranged within strict hierarchies.

They should just quiet down and submit to the patriarchal hierarchy, obviously.

Also that when Jesus said to call no man Father it was because he knew we'd mess it up with our human concept of hierarchy — and, in our minds, impose harsh, top - down characteristics on God based on those exhibited by human fathers.

It is also worth remembering here that feudal society in the Middle Ages was characterized by a descending hierarchy of greater and lesser lords, all the way down to tenant serfs.

Along with this worldview came a very specific hierarchy of being: at the top was God or the gods, who were completely immaterial; just below them were men; and much further down were women and animals.

Second, the rigidity of his hierarchy as an ontological plan for creation might sometimes lend itself to the idea that the Incarnation of the eternal Word was superfluous — all grace flows naturally through the ranks, from the divine Word at the peak on down to the faithful: the Incarnation of the Logos does act as a theophany — arevelation of God — but it seems hardly necessary for salvation.

As soon as the world has been made, lines drawn, categories defined, hierarchies erected, then the trickster, the archtypal performer, moves in to breach norms, violate taboos, turn everything upside down.

According to MacKinnon, sexuality is «socially organized to require sex inequality for excitement and satisfaction,» or, «to put it another way, perhaps gender must be maintained as a social hierarchy so that men will be able to get erections; or, part of the male interest in keeping women down lies in the fact that it gets men up.»

And with Jesus Christ at the center, all the old boundaries break down and the hierarchies begin to blur.

Given the broad appeal of the Franciscans among the common people and the consequent threat that it represented to the well - heeled clerical hierarchy, it is no wonder that Pope John XXII (1249 - 1334) condemned and hunted down the most zealous Franciscans, the so - called Fraticelli.

We thus arrive at a dynamic view of a continual two - way traffic up and down in the hierarchy of behaviour.

Looking downward in the hierarchy of behaviour, a man is only aware of the task in hand, an awareness that fades with each step down into the dimness of routine, the darkness of visceral processes, the various degrees of unawareness of the growing cabbage and the falling stone, and finally dissolves in the indeterminacy of the Janus - faced electron.

But Buddhism, with its doctrine of individual enlightenment and its recurrent teaching that a monk should not bow down before a king, is only ambiguously supportive of political hierarchy.

The order given does not follow a top - down (or bottom - up) hierarchy.

Clarke, a champion of class struggle who has been enamored of almost every lefty cause that has come down the pike, exults in the fact that, with the help of a few friendly bishops, he was a very successful «mole» in undermining a conservative hierarchy that is captive to the «corporate agenda.»

Or, followers have little interest in the conventional religious organization with a hierarchy that expects support from the bottom up but makes decisions from the top down.

Now it comes down to whether the Arsenal hierarchy are keen on bringing him in to usher in a new era at the club with Wenger once again in the firing line this past week and being urged to go by a growing section of discontented supporters.

The last time that the Arsenal hierarchy sat down with Theo Walcott and his representatives about the England international signing a new contract to stay with the club, or not, it seemed to take forever.