Sentences with phrase «driven by the culture»

«Part of it is driven by the culture of a two - income family and the number of women who have been successful in their careers,» he said.

When it's put under the realm of marketing or sales, it typically fails to get the attention that it needs, and is driven by the culture and approach of the primary discipline.

Human beings are generally ethical creatures whether driven by culture or otherwise.

The narrative is partly driven by the culture shock produced by Everett's incongruous arrival in the rural Irish outback, a bit like those recent scenes of President Obama quaffing Guinness in the Emerald Isle except transplanted to the set of Father Ted, and partly by the impudent, ambiguous, seemingly indolent figure of Boyle.

WCM, which currently employs 26 people, is driven by a culture of excellence.

Like several of Phillipson's videos, TRUE TO SIZE (2016) contrasts two incontrovertible aspects of human experience — sex and death — with material and physical desires driven by a culture of advertising that promises infinite opportunities for pleasure and self - perfection.

Driven by the culture of sex and erotic art the portraits break down the censorship of sexual allure and nudity, showing «the different modes in which the body can exist in social spheres and contemporary art».

Their position is driven by Culture War animosity towards greens, scientists, do - gooders and so on, or by ideological commitment to a conservative / libertarian position that would be undermined by the recognition of a global problem that can only be fixed by changes to existing structures of property rights.

Not exact matches

Chief executive from 1993 to 2002, and chairman from 2002 till early last year, Piëch, now 78, infused VW with an ambition and drive that made the most of its political heft, presiding over a culture that was, if not above the law, then not above stretching it, by many accounts.

The cause of all this sleepiness may be largely a lifestyle choice, but it's a lifestyle driven by a corporate culture that rewards long hours as a mark of productivity.

VW is driven by a ruthless, overweening culture.

The city's efforts to position itself as a hub of the global high - tech entrepreneurial community will be showcased this week with its five - day Digital Life Design (DLD) festival, driven by the mission to create a network of innovation, digital prospects, science and culture.

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.

«I'd also have everybody kind of get focused on a similar mission and drive a culture to improve health care costs by lowering them, drive greater levels of effectiveness overall and making sure that we are driving a great deal of consumer satisfaction.»

Now there are signs that the company is emerging from its funk with a shift driven by a $ 10 billion cost - cutting plan and a promise to create, in McDonald's words, a «culture of productivity.»

While Fudge knew many admired Unilever's purpose - driven corporate culture, she and her colleagues on the board were pleasantly surprised by how well it served the company when it became an activist target.

Organizational culture drives compliance and culture is transmitted and reinforced by communications through multiple channels, notably including the observation by employees of management behavior.

Kalanick, who was known to perpetuate a win - at - all - cost culture at Uber, had become frustrated by the progress of the company's self - driving group, according to the sources.

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The Chamber is also focused on growing the region's innovation economy by promoting and strengthening connections to drive Atlanta's innovation and entrepreneurial culture.

Implementation of this program represented an important step taken by HP to drive a high - performance culture.

And that is driven in part by a shareholder - value / activism / whatever culture that Icahn has played a part in promoting.

But she's also no stranger to merging technology and culture, having taken a company — Tribold — from inception to acquisition (by Sigma in 2013), and she continues to advise service providers on how to drive their own transformations.

Being surrounded by the right people not only drives his success, Atkins says, but helps create a culture they want to stay with as the company grows.

Speaking in Boston, Investor says Middle East, Africa have thriving entrepreneurial cultures driven largely by the smartphone

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It guides you step - by - step through the process of recruiting top employees and building an engaged culture — one that will drive your company to long - term success.

It has been scientifically proven that a culture of wellness actually drives results by helping to create an engaged workforce.

Conduct employee surveys using specialized insights enable organizations to improve their employee retention, reduce employee turnover and create a winning work culture driven by motivated employees that are aligned with overall organizational goals.

She is driven by a passion for content strategy and focuses on interesting, engaging and occasionally humorous story telling around technology and technology users occasionally seeding it with her equally passionate love for gaming and nerd culture.

Management by exception and letting the facts drive the project reduces that fear... culture is complicated but it does lead to a higher level of trust and the wiliness to kill quickly projects quickly.

Every day new users are looking into Bitcoin Cash because they are driven away by the toxic and dogmatic culture of Core.

The ride - hail company is not only going through a complete overhaul of its culture and governance, it's also navigating a major self - driving lawsuit brought against it by Alphabet, and it lost more than $ 700 million last quarter — though that's down from more than $ 900 million.

By creating conscious, purpose - driven workplaces and inspiring business cultures, these executives have seen measurable personal and business successes.

Either way, what is required of us is not a drive to change an entire educational culture but a patient, self - assured carrying on of the tradition that has been handed down to us by our mentors.

Here we see John Paul's sense of the importance of culture as the interpretive key to history and the exposure of what Weigel calls the Jacobin and Marxist fallacies» the illusions that history is driven by a quest for power and that history is the «exhaust fumes of impersonal economic forces.»

By the same token, we can no more imagine Cioran eating McKenna's magic mushrooms than sharing the latter's enthusiasm for the «ambient music» of the international youth culture - which might only drive him to one of his meditations on suicide that he has found to be «almost as liberating as the act itself.»

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

In Technopoly, Neil Postman says that overly technological cultures, «driven by the impulse to invent, have as their aim a grand reductionism in which human life must find its meaning in machinery and technique.»

In a culture driven by pleasure and emotional fulfillment, all sorts of other options seem equally viable.

He is equally incisive in realizing that the engine of culture is driven on its evolutionary track by the stories that human beings construct.

Despite a public culture committed to diversity and tolerance, anti-Catholicism has grown measurably worse among academics and intellectuals over the past decade — driven in equal parts by sexual abuse scandals, gay rights, resurgent atheism, and lingering historical prejudice.

The mainstream mathematical culture, which, regardless of ontological commitment, is driven as much by esthetics as by science, seems to have had little meaning for him.

The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» worries that intellectually serious people have passed evangelicals by while we were allured by the sensations of revivalism, seduced by a materialistic market - driven culture, overtaken by the «disaster of fundamentalism» in the face of challenges from modern science and technology, and robbed of our universities through negligence and the inertia of secularized education.

In each case, the passion to evoke a culture in letters seems driven by the authors» sense that their cultures are fading away, doomed to certain and swift dissipation into the pervasive ethos of modern...

Was this one of the American «culture war bishops,» as commentators have termed them, that collection of prelates driven by hate, anger, and power?

Like lots of ideas in a culture driven by rapid trends and quick - fix solutions, missional living became, for many, a fresh means by which to fix the problems in our churches and in others.

I'd also point out how the Jews were influenced by Greek / Roman culture in that time period so even if they were heavily honor driven they had other cultural influences.

The rise, fall and diffusion of the charismatic movement that erupted over 35 years ago in mainline Protestantism may have been driven in part by changes in American culture.

The culture wars are increasingly driven by southern conservatives and as a non-southern, non-conservative (though from the south) I view the culture wars as increasingly dictatorial and oppressive.