Sentences with phrase «know the culture at»

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Build a culture of accountability, measure results, and make sure everyone knows that you are looking at their performance.

Communication is deeply intertwined in an organization's culture, which is why it's crucial to keep good communication practices at the center of your business, no matter what industry you're in.

At Zappos, a company known for its fun culture, a core value is to «create fun and a little wierdness.»

At the heart of Peter's leadership expertise is his success in leading teams and ensuring that a «people first» culture thrives at Purdys Chocolatier, while customers know Purdys for the highest quality chocolate and the highest quality servicAt the heart of Peter's leadership expertise is his success in leading teams and ensuring that a «people first» culture thrives at Purdys Chocolatier, while customers know Purdys for the highest quality chocolate and the highest quality servicat Purdys Chocolatier, while customers know Purdys for the highest quality chocolate and the highest quality service.

«At CIBC the culture was that when somebody becomes the CEO they want to have the people who they know and trust and the ones who helped them achieve their goals.»

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.

Even if your company has a strong mission, a learning culture with smart people to learn from and lots of growth opportunities, it's very difficult to know what it's like to work there by reading your job listing and looking at your marketing website.

Kalanick, known for his stubborn, hard - charging attitude, has similarly been blamed for an aggressive, toxic culture that festered for years at Uber as the company pursued growth by almost any means.

The Windows division no longer exists at Microsoft, marking the end to a four - year process of changing Microsoft's culture.

Internally at DH, Sunny is known as the Culture Godmother, applying the science of happiness with real - time guidance to continually evolve their cCulture Godmother, applying the science of happiness with real - time guidance to continually evolve their cultureculture.

Luck they landed in LAX of all places, where it was at least possible someone knew something about world cultures.

Why worship at a Church when they are behaving NO better than culture that surounds it.

At least in my own experience, as I have gotten to know people different from me, it's given me an appreciation and / or understanding for what they go through, or their culture, perspective, etc..

It does become culture just to turn up at church on a Sunday; you can go through worship time, sing the songs, and then you're out the other side without even knowing it.

Wittgenstein's remark in Culture and Value (University of Chicago Press) is, «you can only know the lie when you've been at home in the truth».

We can not yet know all the mysteries of God's plan, but it seems that Jesus came at a time when human culture and politics had developed to an extent that the Church and the Gospel could begin to be taken to every part of the earth.

No, Mel Gibson and his dad are right about Jewish people, they have done everything in the last 300 years to corrupt White Christian Western culture and countries and are at the point where they can make Europeans extinct through there lies and deceit of multi-culturalism and multiracialism, every single even in the past 300 years has been manipulated by Jews in order to take control of the world, and they white christians as being the main obstacle to obtaining that goal.

We learn to read the labels on medicines at the pharmacy, and follow the commonly - known health advice of society and culture.

Paul did NOT come out against homosexuality as we know it today and this is clear when one looks at both history of the culture and even a basic semblance of textual analysis.

That's exactly why you don't know much about other religions cultures... etc and do not respect them at all.

We know from Jewish culture, that at the wedding celebration for the whole town, one of the acts of entertainment was to have ten virgins perform a wedding dance around the bride and groom.

Admittedly, a few tough - minded souls — usually academics — were able to face their own extinction with equanimity, knowing full well that the traces they left in the culture would be erased within a generation or two at best.

There is NOTHING in the Qur «an that was not known in Arabic culture in general at the time.

There can be no doubt that even the most cultured modem man who has at his disposal all the technical art of our day, needs to pray; indeed, deep in his heart wants to pray.

Every week, she explained, all the junior professors gathered on that night at another professor's house» — this one a well - known youngish professor who wrote about pop culture — «to watch Miami Vice,» the»80s crime show with Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas («Crockett and Tubbs»).

It's an apt gift for friends at any point along the political spectrum, because the disjunction between intentions and results that is crippling our political culture by destroying accountability knows no partisan label.

I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, and despite leaving it thirty years ago at the age of sixteen, I know the culture.

Given that she had decided to join the millions of Christians fasting during Lent, she was all too happy to know that market forces were at work acknowledging this aspect of Christian culture.

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.

Peter Whittle pointed out in the September Standpoint magazine that «If faced with a group of gang members playing music unbearably loud in the car next to them at traffic lights I personally know of nobody - nobody, from Daily Telegraph reader toGuardian reader - who would risk asking them to turn it down... but it's not just the gang culture.»

I can't know for sure, but I believe that Paul's instructions to Timothy regarding the women at Ephesus were intended to protect the gospel from untrained teachers and to ensure that the Church remain distinct from the cults of the surrounding culture.

But they risk everything — their national character and their capacity to succor the downtrodden — by permitting uncontrolled mass migration of peoples who know nothing of their culture, in such huge numbers and at such speed that they can not possibly be assimilated and integrated into this or any future generation.

Modern intellectual culture assumes the «fact - value dichotomy» so easily, in fact, that the future relations of piety and intellect at Union will undoubtedly involve some mighty wrestling to keep the two intimate with each other, no matter how insulated some of our university colleagues prefer them to be.

With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.

It did have me thinking when I realized I knew and have met many people from israel and other middle - eastern cultures who were white and thought to myself, maybe it's not unrealistic at all.

It is primarily a religion of India; although it was known in the countries to the west, its major influence outside India was in Southeast Asia where it at one time was the dominant culture as far east as Indonesia.

The information at our disposal now makes so evident the complexity, the diversity, of the religious aspect of human experience in all Asian cultures that we can no longer use easy generalizations or traditionally accepted patterns in talking about other religions.

The churches I know practice a culture of honor, at home and in the church, and community.

Alternatively, and in contrast to the first two positions, there is the view that value is rooted in a «moral universe» which can be at least fairly well known and approximated by man through his rational capacities; this moral universe participates in, yet in its fullness transcends, the actual shape of culture, history and human will; and the task of moral agents is to discover and act on the principles, laws and rules that this universe contains and reveals to the discerning moral conscience.

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.

With us in North America, on the contrary, Christ and culture are so subtlety intertwined, so inextricably connected at the subconscious or unconscious level, that we do not know where one leaves off and the other begins.

Again, I can't help but to look at Jesus — what he said, what he did, I know doesn't sound very culture current and mimic the popular conversations.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

In his words, «Furthermore, since between 95 and 97 percent of the Jewish state was illiterate at the time of Jesus, it must be presumed that Jesus also was illiterate, that he knew, like the vast majority of his contemporaries in an oral culture, the foundational narratives, basic stories, and general expectations of his tradition but not the exact texts, precise citations, or intricate arguments of its scribal elites» (Ibid: 25 - 26).

Culture wars are a cancer eating away at the church, but getting to know actual people in our parish could be an antidote to this ideology, and a timely one at that.

If you look at the landscape of church culture there seems to be a growing movement of communities of faith who are known for emphasizing one aspect of the Trinity...

I'm not talking about individuals, I've seen enough comments here to know that there is a great amount of suffering here; but it seems to me that American culture strives to avoid suffering and discomfort at all costs, even when it's good.

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby (Gen 18:2 NIV)»... Furthermore, there is a good reason to study the old Orient, the rituals and cultures of the Middel East, especially at that time,,, i myself being Half Egyptian and having been raised there, am blessed with this foreknowledge for certain things that are still the same way now as they were at th etime of Jesus and earlier,,, where Men kiss to greet one another for example,,, so when King David talks about the love of Jonathan being greater than that of a woman,,, and at the same time knowing that the Hebrew litreature (as the Arabian culture to quite an extent still is) was very poetic and used éndless symbols and parabels to express an idea,,, one might do himself a favor not jumping to conclusions which satisfy only his very own ideas and thoughts,,, the biggest problem with Bible interpretations lately is Verses ripped out of the context and interpreted in such a way that has nothing to do with its original context... «To the law and to the testimony!

But look at other Islamic Arabs majority countries such Egypt, Sudan, All North African Countries you would find Worship houses for Muslims, Christians, Jews and God know what else and been living for years in Peace and Respect until this Era since WW's + 1948 unjust decisions the world is changing badly separating brothers of one blood in different faith & beliefs become to doubt each other in to some race towards power and dominance over each other in to some Jungle Laws, this has brought negative feeling and emotions among all multi religion cultures that were living and trading in peace...!

I was introduced to the social context approach and the honor / shame culture last quarter at UCLA, as you know.