Sentences with phrase «on high culture»

The scene comes off as satire, a wry comment on high culture's role in rebranding the emirates as teetotaling Xanadus.

«Dispersion»: Institute Contemporary Arts Artforum International; April 1, 2009; Gilligan, Melanie; 700 + words Curated by Polly Staple, «Dispersion» took its title from Seth Price's eponymous text of 2002, which discusses, among other things, the impact of digital technologies and distributed media on high culture.

Not exact matches

Pop culture critics, who tend to be attracted to the thing that's most popular, mostly ignore the most popular shows on TV, which are lower - brow fare crafted to get high ratings.

These are just some of the best practices, adapted appropriately for each company, that build a culture of high performance, breed innovation and, most importantly, produce a significant impact on bottom - line performance.

It leads to high turnover, decreased innovation — with the bully focused on bullying and the one being bullied afraid to be vocal in the organization — and a harder time hiring highly - qualified professionals, as word gets out about your firm's toxic culture.

From equipping employees with the tools to be successful to providing career paths, here are a few pieces of advice on what it takes to have a high - performance culture.

He went on to say that Kraft Heinz's culture is consistent, listing five core principles including high performance and opaquely, «dreaming big.»

Rich with culture, this glamorous coastal paradise also has the second - highest startup density on the list, making it an entrepreneurial hot spot.

For decades, Great Place to Work has shown the immense impact that a high - trust culture has on employee experience across all generations.

Employers that work to meet those demands by building a high - trust culture, with a special focus on Millennials in leadership roles, will get ahead in both the talent game and in the marketplace.»

Jackson's reps aptly noted that hip hop culture places a high premium on wealth and masculinity, one which rappers often feel they must uphold on social media.

«Angling for co-worker positions based on better pay, higher clout or more accolades is a recipe for wasted business energy and aggressive behavior that doesn't translate to a higher yield, faster turnaround or a better workplace culture,» Smartt says.

Each company had to have an overall company rating of 3.5 on the jobs site, and a 2.5 or higher when it came to five «workplace factor ratings» — career opportunities, compensation and benefits, culture and values, senior management and work / life balance.

According to Great Place to Work, the global authority on building, sustaining and recognizing high - trust organizational cultures, investing in diverse talent inherently equates to lower attrition.

At the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting earlier this month, Buffett commented on the fault he saw at Wells Fargo (wfc), where a high - pressure sales culture has been blamed for creating an atmosphere that led employees to create as many as 2 million fake accounts for customers.

ECU's focus on identifying opportunities in priority or high growth areas such as nursing, education, communications, environmental studies, law and security and entertainment and culture is also unique, Professor Poole says.

But if you act on these principles every day, every member of your company will see higher quality work — and when you zoom out, you'll see a more productive culture for your whole team.

In 2015, I hope unlimited vacation policies catch fire and more CEOs think of it not as merely a benefit or perk, but as part of crafting a high performance company culture built on trust and respect.

Employees who are part of a high - performance culture focus on the work that matters most, facilitate collaboration across departments and are able to identify high - risk areas and react quickly.

High - performance cultures happen when the organization's leaders revisit, refine and stay aligned on their goals quarterly.

As part of the initiative, we asked the many businesses that applied to be on the list what a high - performance company culture means to them.

A jury of high - profile Canadian business leaders selects 10 finalists and one winning company based on the following criteria: innovation, market development, people and culture, strategic leadership, and improvements in financial measures.

He wrote that the value of Yahoo is likely to decline further «without significant change to the culture» and added that «we can not imagine that any prudent individual assigns a high probability that Yahoo is on a path to substantially increase» its profits.

It offers a comprehensive range of proprietary solutions and cutting edge services with a high added value in technology based on a unique culture of reliability, flexibility and adaptability to the needs of its customers.

Her workshop on «Building a High - Impact Learning Culture» rang true for our small agency, and would be of great benefit to larger businesses seeking to train and retain top talent.

He has spoken to and consulted with hundreds of organizations across the globe and inspired thousands of business leaders through his highly insightful philosophies on leadership, culture and building high - performance teams that achieve winning results.

She is a sought - after speaker on the topics of leading large - scale cultural change, transformational leadership, brand building, cultivating high - performance teams, creating cultures of diversity and inclusion, harnessing talent, gender equity on boards, women in the c - suite, and women in high - growth entrepreneurship.

Even if they come across as a high performer, they can wreak havoc on the positive, collaborative culture you need to create.

We also see positive impacts on culture and relationships being developed with high quality strategic talent.

Chinese culture places a high value on guanxi, or personal connections, and you can experience that firsthand on Taobao.

Great Place to Work is the global authority on high - trust, high - performance workplace cultures.

«It has a one - of - a-kind culture that I have searched high and low and have not found a close second on any continent.»

Governments can build on this culture of high ethical standards by creating an incentive for companies to report wrongful behaviour to the authorities.

For many, the Church lives on the outskirts of culture with walls too high to climb, and no doorway to be invited into community, if you're different or new.

Yet shortly after the council, the high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism that now manifests itself as Christophobia: a deep hostility to gospel truth (especially moral truth) and a determination to drive Christians who affirm those truths out of public life and into a privatized existence on the margins of society.

«If the rumors and distrust persist on this campus, it may very well be because these decisions, by being postured on some vague spiritual «high ground,» have actually engendered a culture of fear,» they wrote in an open letter in the student newspaper, The Moody Standard.

The key organs of popular culture have declared dissenting views on sexuality and marriage unfit for polite conversation, setting off occasional high - profile witch hunts against dissenters and enabling an environment of intimidation well beyond those.

But... despite all their hard thinking about educational method and styles of teaching, and despite the bewildering multiplicity of subjects embraced in their higher culture, none of them really understood the assumptions on which his profession was based.»

So the firing of a conservative columnist from a left - of - center magazine won't register as high on the culture - war scale as did the firings of Brendan Eich (from Mozilla) or James Damore (from Google).

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.

On the other hand, Eastern Europe, although for a thousand years it had had a higher culture than the West, might never have developed modern science.

Babylonia, situated on a broad low plain between the rivers at their widest points, was very fertile and had developed an advanced culture as early as 3500 B.C.. From this region comes the famous Code of Hammurabi which, dating from long before the time of Moses, shows high ethical discernment regarding the establishment of justice in human relations.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

The bishops may occasionally recite some high - minded cant on the subject of culture, but their passions lie elsewhere.

The sociologist of religion will realize that it is rather a question of emphasis; individual expression and pecularity being present already on the level of so - called primitive civilization and communal worship playing a most important part in the highest forms of religion and culture.

It's that high culture has so little influence on popular culture — which wasn't always the case.

Still, if we keep our focus on the typically underexplored question of why the Great War continued, it seems to me that one has to take account of the nihilism, racism, and will - to - power that warped European high culture in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, making what now appear to be acts of civilizational suicide both rational and unavoidable.

Lower levels of binge drinking and participation in the hookup culture may also lead to higher graduation rates and a more academic atmosphere on campus, increasing prestige, which boosts enrollment.

They put popular culture on the same intellectual footing as high culture (Conrad or graphic novels, three hours credit either way).

As a book on pop - music, Simon Reynolds» Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past earns a high B, but does not rate among my very favorites, being too beholden to Rock attitudes, and too long - winded for its own good.