Sentences with phrase «known cultures on»

Follow in the footsteps of Indiana Jones and discover lost worlds, ancient sites and little - known cultures on your next trip

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But if they ignore some of these things, like the quality issues, how they might adapt the culture, bringing in better practices — I don't know why they would ignore those things — but if they do, it could really blow up on them.»

So, you'll have to learn to turn a deaf ear to the complaints about how the new guy or girl doesn't «get it»; doesn't know every single thing on day one; isn't fitting into the system or the culture, etc..

The New York — based Institute surveys more than 5,000 Canadians on for their opinions on well - known brand names, including companies» corporate citizenship, product quality, workplace culture and more.

«They don't want to become the next startup to disappear, so they paste on a smile while they're sinking, knowing that they're in a culture that stigmatizes therapy and depression, that associates asking for help with weakness.»

Getting to know a co-worker isn't a bad way to while away your lunch hour, but according to FreshBooks the program has actually had a deeper impact on company culture and inter-team connection.

When I work with companies, I often hear things like «takes initiative», «works well on a team», «great problem solver», «knows the business», «brings experience», or «fits with our culture.»

The verdict, no matter how it comes down, is going to be seen as a referendum on Silicon Valley culture.

By having a current employee train new employees, he or she can educate on institutional knowledge and culture that an external trainer may not know.

Mr. Johnson, a soft - spoken operator known for his focus on building Starbucks» mobile payments systems and on executing the company's global strategy, has been on a listening tour with employees over the last year to better appreciate the company's culture.

Day, 36, who is known for her work on TV and web shows like Dr. Horrible's Sing - Along Blog, Supernatural, and The Guild, helped define what a successful career in digital culture can look like and, in the process, has been bestowed the title of «queen of the geeks» (an honorific she has resisted).

«In my heart of hearts, I knew I really enjoyed building things, having a hands - on role in a company's culture and future,» Svenson said in a phone interview.

Today's businesses no longer operate on a top - down processing model, and absentee management is a surefire way to lose your culture of innovation.

But, if you hesitated on answering any of these culture fit type questions, and questioned whether you would truly enjoy working with this person, then just say no.

«If your employees are engaged and care about the company and its culture, and feel like they know what's happening», says Fradin, «then they become an advocate for the company — recruiting other people, talking positively about it, writing a review on Glassdoor.

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.

INNOVATING WITH PURPOSE Talent Track hosted by Cornerstone OnDemand Every business needs to take the long view when it comes to employees — and that means knowing not only what they need on Day One but also what will keep them there: a great culture, as well as opportunities for growth and for making a positive impact on the broader community and world.

American culture, says Palihapitiya, places a premium on know - it - alls.

No, because we are planning on continuing to run Zappos as a separate company with our own culture and core values.

Known as «Gamergate,» the controversy — ostensibly over ethics in gaming journalism, but used as a vehicle to lash out against women in the gaming industry — has shone a spotlight on the ugliest part of gaming culture.

But in March, facing crises on multiple fronts, top officials convened a call for reporters to insist that Uber was changing its culture and would no longer tolerate «brilliant jerks.»

While working in an industry not known for positive work cultures (call centers), Paul and his brothers focused on creating an environment in which people loved what they did every day, and lived by a set of core values that everyone respected.

There I was fascinated by the incredibly unique culture and environment: Did you know that 80 % of the plants and animals found in Madagascar don't exist anywhere else on the planet?

They work to secure media attention for their own work as well as for plant - based and cultured meat companies, and they have been covered in more than 480 scientific and mainstream media venues.16 Little is known about the impact of these interventions on public opinion, though it seems that raising public awareness of cultured products may be valuable, especially since the field is so new.

As my friend James mentioned to me today, Howard Buffett is not only on Coca - Cola's board, but he's also the man that was given the duty of carrying on the Berkshire Hathaway culture once Warren Buffett is no longer there one day.

Alternatively, many sociologists predicted that, with the increasing emphasis on individualism and the therapeutic in American culture, religion would have an increasingly marginal influence on domestic life, and the traditional family as the 1950s knew it would gradually disappear in the face of «family modernization,» as some theorists called it.

And thanks to accounts like Nate Jackson's riveting football memoir «Slow Getting Up,» we know that the game we love depends on legions of no - name guys who quietly sacrifice their bodies to the NFL's culture of constant pain, only to exit to a road to nowhere.

From this moment on, I will no longer tolerate our culture's various forms of homophobia.

Not today: Her school, her culture, often her family, and sometimes even her church are no longer on her side.

when you live in America, knowing that the culture here is very superficial and most things are based on looks (and not just here but other countries as well) you can't be surprised that people will find a fully bearded woman strange.

Although they try to avoid calling attention to it, the new natural lawyers know very well that their project rests on metaphysical assumptions that the dominant scientific culture rejects.

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.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

The narrative in which you develop your faith is entirely dependent on who you know and the culture in which you live.

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.»

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

Being all - knowing, he could think of things that would persuade every single person on Earth, regardless of background or culture.

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

The recent passing of the well - known Gospel singer Andraé Crouch offers an opportunity to reflect further on the way in which Christianity continues to shape culture through the creation of new cultural forms of music, art, etc..

On Monday, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation released its «Dirty Dozen List,» which highlights companies that are rather well - known throughout the U.S. but are surprisingly considered to be «mainstream facilitators of sexual exploitation in our society and culture.&raquOn Monday, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation released its «Dirty Dozen List,» which highlights companies that are rather well - known throughout the U.S. but are surprisingly considered to be «mainstream facilitators of sexual exploitation in our society and culture.&raquon Sexual Exploitation released its «Dirty Dozen List,» which highlights companies that are rather well - known throughout the U.S. but are surprisingly considered to be «mainstream facilitators of sexual exploitation in our society and culture.»

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

Because women need look no further than the billboards on the highways, the magazine racks in the check - out aisle, or the advertisements on TV to know that our worth in this culture is measured primarily by our appearance.

Yes, we should be wary of the dominating culture's depravity, but what if we were so focused on creating and cultivating our own culture of goodness and beauty that we could finally see the riff raff for what it is, and no longer felt so threatened by it?

On its webpage, it proclaims that there can be «no doubt about Hindu identity and culture being the mainstay of the Indian nation and Indian society.»

As head of Students for Life of America, overseeing student - led organizations on around 1,200 high school and college campuses nationwide, I know from experience that social conservatives can not cede the territory of culture and expect to survive.

And that we thought you might want to know, especially if this is the day of the week on which you are tempted to think that the jig is up in the culture wars.

Where Jesus designed an opportunity for a disciple to lean into a new family, learn a new culture, and serve under the head of a household (who best knows his own need), we march in with a plan and the resources to git «er «done — completely missing out on the gift of being «a worker worth his wages».

I don't know the driver and am not free to judge her, but her display did cause me to reflect on how many Christians engage the broader culture, and how disconnected it often seems from the central Gospel message that the God who made us and loves us is about the business of making all things right.

If you have ever watched the movie or seen the play Fiddler on the Roof, you know that this is still a custom in certain parts of Jewish culture.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!