Sentences with phrase «n't know the culture»

It is my conviction that if a theologian doesn't know the culture and times well enough to speak and write in ways that people understand, then the theologian doesn't know the first thing about theology.

«They don't know the language, they don't know the culture, and they're jet - lagged.

That awkward feeling of everyone feeling sorry for you when you don't know the culture is just the worst.

They don't know our culture.

Not exact matches

As part of Glassdoor's 50 Most Common Interview Questions series, career strategist Mary Grace Gardner from The Young Professionista says that «knowing what excites you helps to assess whether or not you fit with the company's culture.»

Entrepreneurs know that they don't always understand the intricate weave that comprises a country's business culture, including its norms for recruiting, vendor negotiations, lead generation, sales and marketing.

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.»

While the employees might know the business well, they might not be experts in the culture overseas.

But what he couldn't have known is that riff would become a part of popular culture, inspiring stadium chants like this:

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..

Meddling in the wrong ways or too often can either produce a culture where people don't like to take actions because they know you'll eventually just step in anyways, or — equally badly — the company gets unfocused from the constant interventions.

No, this book won't offer you many chuckles, but it might help readers break through our culture's unhelpful silence around our inevitable end and think through how to go about the final chapter of life with some dignity.

«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.

The organizations that do the best job of encouraging a culture of mastery are the ones with leaders humble enough to admit they don't know everything and constantly pursue growth — the ones who openly discuss the books they're reading, the classes they're taking and the areas in which they seek to better themselves.

• Even if Uber's investors didn't know the gory details of the medical record heist or the Otto / Waymo trade secrets, they certainly had an idea of the company's toxic culture.

Because culture is not quantitative, it can be tough to know how strong your company culture is.

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.

Howard shares, «Every business has a culture, whether you know it or not.

There's also entrepreneur, inventor and head of X (formerly known as Google X) Astro Teller's talk, «The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure,» where he explains how X has built a comfortable culture where people aren't afraid to take risks and try new things.

Dealing with a Kuwaiti client recently, for example, he knew he shouldn't discount the price too much during negotiations because in Middle Eastern business culture, such a move signals the buyer that he's discounting the value of the service.

Historically, there's always been a problem of lawyers thinking they know everything, which is in fact a problem in life with lawyers... There's been a culture of activism of making it clear to lawyers that the support is necessary and appreciated, but they weren't necessarily the leaders of the movement.

As a person who implements software, it helps me in advance to know the culture and personalities of the people I'll be intimately working with so I know whether or not to include a bottle — or three — of Jack Daniels in my budget.

[When you] start to make a habit of realizing that formal leadership isn't the same thing as running a discussion, you make it easier to have a culture where people can speak up and, if they know something relevant, take the lead.»

By creating this type of culture, you might just inspire a whole new group of difference makers that you didn't even know you had.

It's hard to know whether it's the result of simply having less money or a shift in culture, but Millennials don't care about brands and status anywhere near as much as earlier generations.

How easy it is for «It's - not - my - job syndrome» to rear its ugly head when nobody in the culture knows what the company values.

I know many companies that grow, are successful, and make a lot of money, but the managers don't like their staff, and they don't care about it or the culture.

Don't be above creating an internal company culture manifesto, because if you don't know what your company values, the members of your team certainly won't.

When you bring in somebody new, they don't necessarily know the culture and won't know the company's best practices from the bottom up, and unfortunately that can sometimes spell dissatisfaction or outright failure.

That was the second section of this article, but the source of such problems may all come back to an opaque company culture where workers don't know what the company cares about.

The plant - burger boosters don't believe cultured meat will ever be able to scale; Memphis Meats and its brethren counter that plants — no matter what you do to them — will always taste like plants.

There's a 97 - second YouTube video called «Because Not Everybody is a Big Ass Fan» which, in many ways, captures everything you need to know about the company's culture.

When I started FlexJobs as a remote company, I knew from day one that it was going to be important to create an amazing company culture — even though we were not going to have a traditional office environment.

«Hiring talent that doesn't align with your company culture creates personal conflict within the employee that will no doubt impact their work and those they work with,» says Brown.

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.

What is polite in one culture may not be considered so in another, so know your manners for the countries you visit.

Here are four pop culture fixations Musk is known to dabble in, you know, when he's not swamped with curbing our extinction:

All I know is the season is synonymous with the group from Hawthorne, California, which only featured one surfer, but epitomized the west coast beach culture that not only permeated our country, but made us all want to gravitate to California and become a part of.

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.

Our work - driven culture encourages us to take the entrepreneurial bait, but how can you know whether being an entrepreneur will end as a dream come true or a nightmare from which you can not awake?

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?

«You want to engender an environment in which people will be open, and not feel that they are being intolerable and shut up, so they created a culture in which everyone knows how to be constructive.

Several disgruntled former employees have expressed concerns about «groupthink» being ingrained in what is widely known as a hyper - liberal company culture value system where expressions of other views are not welcome and can lead to being ostracized or being shown the door.

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.

For example, many customers will want to know not just about your products or services, but about your company's unique personality and culture.

That one should probably go to some kind of frugal diaries or confessions, but if you know a bit the European culture, it is not that big of a deal, actually many of my cousins who are in their late 20s / early 30s do not even have their driving license!

Our wider culture doesn't know how to navigate the conversation about race.

The struggle is that religion in media can create a barrier between Christian culture and those who do not know about Christ.

Any one who knows the long and convoluted, very human process of the integration of the «Yahweh» god, (the god of the armies), into Hebrew culture, could never for a moment take it seriously, as well as the development of the major tenets of Christianity, most of which were not spoken of by the so - called «founder» of that religion, (but instead were developed by his followers), many years later, including the long, and very interesting concoctions of his cult.